How do you match a reader with a text? Texts and readers can be matched by interest, reading level, and skill. Review the information in your textbook on
readability formulas and the Lexile framework.
Using the grade level you intend to teach, choose a topic (i.e., frogs) to use as the focus for a thematic unit. Using Lexile’s “Find a Book” Tool, locate three to
five thematic texts that would be appropriate for independent reading for students in the class whose reading levels vary by three grade level. For each text,
provide:
the book’s title
author
corresponding Lexile measure
In two to three paragraphs, provide a rationale for the texts you chose and discuss the instructional implications for their use. At a minimum, your write-up
should address the following:
The theme you used to guide your selection of texts.
A descriiption of the student that each text would be most appropriate for.
The benefits and challenges of selecting texts based on these readability measures.
Any other considerations that might need to be made when selecting texts for use in a class with a heterogeneous population.
In matching readers to texts, teachers are hoping to create not only a good fit between text and reader but also harmony—a pleasing arrangement. An appropriate match will make the difference between a child becoming a confident, skilled reader or a frustrated, declining reader. In fact, research indicates that when readers spend a great deal of time reading appropriate texts, they will become fluent, acquire more words, and exponentially increase their skills (Stanovich, 1985). Conversely, when they do not read a great deal or do not have manageable books, they will increasingly fall behind their peers (Stanovich, 1985). In matching readers with texts, we want to strive to build the reader’s skill in handling increasingly difficult texts. To do so, we must gradually select books that progressively increase in difficulty. Then we must support readers in accessing those texts.
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understudies. Given the expected worth of such figures propelling scholastic achievement and hence impacting results like maintenance, wearing down, and graduation rates, research is justified as it might give understanding into non-mental techniques that could be of possible benefit to this populace (Lamm, 2000) . Part I: INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY Introduction The country is encountering a basic lack of medical care suppliers, a deficiency that is supposed to increment in the following five years, similarly as the biggest populace in our country’s set of experiences arrives at the age when expanded clinical consideration is essential (Pike, 2002). Staffing of emergency clinics, centers, and nursing homes is more basic than any time in recent memory as the enormous quantities of ‘people born after WW2’s start to understand the requirement for more continuous clinical mediation and long haul care. Interest in turning into a medical caretaker has disappeared as of late, presumably because of the historical bac