Teaching to Text Complexity for ENL Students, Grades 3-9

Reading strategies will focus on skill and readability as participants are introduced to leveling systems that scaffold. Participants will be introduced to the scaffolding mechanisms needed to appropriately move up text complexity in multiple genres across all subject areas for ELL students.

Student Learning Outcomes:

• Scaffold for, and teach to, text complexity.
• Through practice, develop the ability to plan strategically for teaching text complexity to ELL students
• Align student-learning objectives to strategy that teaches text complexity.