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Experiencing and Learning Productive Struggle and Persistence in Reading Tasks

• Foundational Skills
  • Benchmark Advance Sound Spelling Cards
  • Dutch Orthography

• Productive Persistence
  • Poetry
    • Trilogy
    • My Shot
    • How to Kill Like a Man
    • They Came
  • Narrative
    • The Third Tower
    • Everything is Far from Here
    • Terminal
    • The Walk
  • Explanatory
    • A Paper’s Weight
    • A new Era of Times Ownership
    • The World Catches Up
    • Despite Drought, Still Digging In
    • Beyond the Blue Marble
    • One Strange Rock
  • Argument
    • What E Pluribus Unum Means
    • The Tyranny of Convenience
    • Why Lee Should Go and Washington Stay
    • The ERA Roars Suddenly Back to Life
    • We Could Kill Cal-3 in Court
  • Commentary
    • A Radically Woke and Deeply Conservative Commencement Address
    • He Never Forgot Homeless
    • Could President Trump Pardon Himself?
    • Godwin’s Law in the Age of Trump
  • Readings by Type
    • Study Questions and List of Productive Persistence Reading Selections
• Self Motivated Reading
  • Literary Fiction Readers Understand Others’ Emotions Better, Study Finds
  • Novel Finding: Reading Literary Fiction Improves Empathy
• Promoting Self-Motivated Reading
  • What is Self-Motivated Reading, and Why is it so Important?
• Fun With Complexity
  • What Does Text Complexity Mean for English Learners and Language Minority Students?
  • Text Complexity Packet
• Teaching the Reading Standards: The Role of Questions
  • Working on Reading Standards via Questions and Discussion Topics