TEXT SETS “Text sets are a tool for creating a lifelong habit of mind.” —Maria Nichols, director of school innovation, San Diego Unified School District
KEY FINDINGS
> > Text sets are an instructional technique that’s simple to implement and almost unfailingly effective—fulfilling many of the instructional shifts called for by rigorous reading standards, including increasing practice with both nonfiction and fiction reading, engaging in close reading, accessing domain-specific vocabulary, and addressing text-dependent questions with text-based evidence. > > Text sets are a collection of sources of information that have a commonality. They explore a shared topic, issue, or big idea.” Text sets invite children to explore, discuss, and pursue additional questions (Scharer et al., 2018; Nichols, 2009). > > According to Neuman and Roskos (2012), text sets work best as an instructional tool when they are “coherent, narrowly focused on a set of key ideas to ensure that children will have repeated opportunities to hear and develop an understanding of a common set of words and concepts throughout the readings.” > > Students are on their way to becoming critically aware, and insightful learners and thinkers as they wrestle with different concepts, ideas, perspectives, and opinions across a range of texts and learn to construct their own beliefs drawing from multiple sources of information—as opposed to simply believing a single source. (Robb, 2003).
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