Text Complexity: Primary Teachers' Views

Autor/inn/en	Fitzgerald, Jill; Hiebert, Elfrieda H.; Bowen, Kimberly; Relyea-Kim, E. Jackie; Kung, Melody; Elmore, Jeff
Titel	Text Complexity: Primary Teachers' Views
Quelle	In: Literacy Research and Instruction, 54 (2015) 1, S.19-44 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1938-8071
DOI	10.1080/19388071.2014.954086
Schlagwörter	Elementary School Teachers; Difficulty Level; Reading Materials; Questionnaires; Decoding (Reading); Word Frequency; Illustrations; Young Children; Primary Education; Beginning Reading; Kindergarten; Grade 1; Grade 2; Reading Instruction; Textbooks; Textbook Content + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Schwierigkeitsgrad; Fragebogen; Dekodierung; Word analysis; Frequency; Wortanalyse; Häufigkeit; Bildliche Darstellung; Frühe Kindheit; Primarbereich; Erstleseunterricht; School year 01; 1. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 01; School year 02; 2. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 02; Leseunterricht; Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; Lehrbuchtext
Abstract	The research question was, "What text characteristics do primary teachers think are most important for early grades text complexity?" Teachers from across the United States accomplished a two-part task. First, to stimulate teachers' thinking about important text characteristics, primary teachers completed an online paired-text comparison task. While doing the task, teachers were asked to decide which texts in pairs were more complex, and they were also asked to think about which text characteristics mattered most for their decisions. Next, teachers completed a questionnaire, with primary focus on the text characteristics teachers thought mattered most for early grades text complexity. The teachers emphasized word decodability, word frequency, pictures, and word meanings, and they also referenced other characteristics. Their outlook has implications for implementation of the Common Core Standard on text complexity for young children learning to read. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10