Kimberly Hill CampbellMy task as a language arts teacher is to provide texts that are not so difficult that my students shut down in frustration and not so easy that my students don't push their thinking.
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The question that drives me as a language arts teacher is: Which texts can my students learn from and which ones must be assigned to the readers who need the extra challenge? My job as a language arts teacher is to provide texts that are not so difficult that my students shut down in frustration and not so easy that my students don't push their thinking. I want all of my students to learn from my texts, but I also want them to be challenged.
Source: Less Is More: Teaching Literature With Short Texts, Grades 612
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