Constructing Complexity: Using Reading Levels to Differentiate Reading Comprehension Activities

Declan FitzPatrick

doi:10.58680/ej20086830

ISSN: 0013-8274
E-ISSN: 2161-8895

Constructing Complexity: Using Reading Levels to Differentiate Reading Comprehension Activities
Author(s): Declan FitzPatrick
Source: English Journal, Volume 98, Issue 2, Nov 2008, p. 57 - 63
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58680/ej20086830
- Published online: 01 Nov 2008

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An English teacher turned curriculum coordinator updates Hillocks’s reading levels to create a method for improving students’ reading comprehension and critical-thinking skills.

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