Creating from The Top Down
Creating from the “Top Down”, means that we start with a complete piece of text and break it down into versions that will help that text become comprehensible to our students. (When we use it with students we always begin with the base reading)
Here is a PowerPoint that illustrates, with an English example, how to create an Embedded Reading from the Top Down:
Top Down Creating Embedded Readings
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