- Not always entertaining
- A guide
- Usually subject-specific
- Objective?
- Flat tone
- Expensive
- Over-complicate things
- Not detailed enough
- Not essential for learning
- Require different kinds of reading
What can we do to make textbooks accessible to students?
- Connect to prior knowledge
- Model our teaching strategies
- Online version
- Activities to go along with reading
- Hold their thinking
- Purpose
- Make textbook relevant
- Know what you want them to get out of it
- Use alternate text
- Discuss
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