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<em>Goals help guide my thinking about reader's skills within each level of text complexity, and a leveling system helps my understanding of readers' development from level to level.</em><br /><br /><strong>-Jennifer Serravallo </strong><br /><br /><em> U</em><em>nderstanding Texts & Readers</em> makes comprehension make sense. In it, Jennifer Serravallo narrows the distance between assessment and instruction. She maps the four fiction and four nonfiction comprehension goals she presented in <em>The Reading Strategies Book</em> to fourteen text levels and shares sample responses that show what to expect from readers at each.<br /><br />Jen simplifies text complexity and clarifies comprehension instruction. She begins by untangling the many threads of comprehension: Levels, engagement, stamina, the relevance of texts, and much more. Then level by level she:<br /><br />calls out with precision how plot and setting, character, vocabulary and figurative language, and themes and ideas chang