Using Paired Text to Meet the Common Core: Effective Teaching across the K-8 Curriculum

by William Bintz

Teaching students to make connections across related texts promotes engagement and improves reading comprehension and content learning. This practical guide explains how to select and teach a wide range of picture books as paired text--two books related by topic, theme, or genre--in grades K-8. The author provides mini-lessons across the content areas, along with hundreds of recommendations for paired text, each linked to specific Common Core standards for reading literature and informational texts. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book includes 22 reproducible graphic organizers and other useful tools. Purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.

19 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 11, 2014

Reviews

[S · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book provides information about how to use paired texts in the classroom -- from (copious) examples to comparison charts and everything in between. I recognize that it's a good book, I just didn't enjoy reading it.

[Bernadette Fox · Rating 3 out of 5]

Filled with detailed, thorough lists of books to pair together to meet the common core. The listings are easily grouped by subject (language arts, social studies, science, and math) and by standard.