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Interacting with Complex Texts: Scaffolding Reading
This lesson is part of the Persuasion Across Time and Space unit. In this video, the teacher works with struggling students and prepares them to access complex text by scaffolding their background knowledge on the text.
This lesson makes effective use of focus questions, multiple ways to interact with the text, and extension of learning to help students write their own persuasive speeches.