Top Tips for Teaching with Text Sets
Text sets help students read with purpose, grow vocabulary and background knowledge, strengthen reasoning and understanding of language structures, and build literacy knowledge while also boosting critical thinking and expanding knowledge across disciplines, supporting the language comprehension strands of Scarborough’s Reading Rope.
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Why teach with Text Sets?
All students need to build stronger vocabularies, expand their background knowledge, and strengthen their reading comprehension skills, especially when it comes to reading in content areas such as science and social studies.
A text set helps students broaden their knowledge by exploring a topic from multiple angles while also deepening their knowledge by focusing on a single topic for an extended period of learning.
Top Benefits of Text Sets for Students:
- Improve comprehension skills
- Grow critical thinking skills
- Build academic and content-area vocabulary
- Increase background knowledge
- Make cross-curricular connections
- Learn text structures and text features
By incorporating text sets into your language arts curriculum, you can help set your students up for success with all types of reading tasks!