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From https://passion4theprofession.com

Leslie Grahn of the passion4theprofession blog asks, "Trying to interpret a text in a language other than your first language can be intimidating. And, in this day and age, students’ first impulse is to use Google Translate. How can we lower students’ anxiety around interpreting authentic text?" In this blog post, she suggests five different ways to offer student choice in what authentic materials they read and how they respond to them:

1. Allow students to select authentic text for independent reading time.
2. Implement before, during, and after reading choice boards
3. Allow students to select an authentic text from a group of curated resources.
4. Encourage students to enrich and extend their learning by diving more deeply into a topic of their choice through authentic resources
5. Give access to students to authentic text at a variety of challenge levels

Read the full blog post at https://passion4theprofession.com/2018/12/03/increasing-student-comfort-with-authentic-text-through-choice/