Whitepaper
How to Use Readable Text with Beginning Readers
Learn how the instruction teachers provide before and during text reading is critical to making a text readable. This paper provides suggestions for planning, preview texts, and simple strategies for using readable texts.
Meet the Experts
Heidi Anne Mesmer
Dr. Heidi Anne Mesmer is a literacy professor at the Virginia Tech School of Education. She works extensively with teachers, schools, and young readers, directing numerous initiatives to improve reading instruction, and studies beginning reading instruction and text difficulty. She is the author of Tools for Matching Readers to Texts, Reading Interventions in Primary Grades, and Teaching Skills for Complex Texts and has been published in The Reading Teacher, Reading Research Quarterly, and more.