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Tag: Complex Texts

Helping kids read and understand complex texts

By Alex on March 12th, 2013

Today we are excited to have Dr. Jeffrey Wilhelm,  a well-known professor of English from Boise State University and one of our amazing authors of  XBOOKS, here to talk about complex texts. There are a lot of things I like about the Common Coremore… full post