ABSTRACT
This chapter provides examples of how the differentiation features of complexity, depth, and abstractness can be applied to questioning, tasks, and products with ELA informational texts. Models are provided to support students in recognizing and critically analyzing the language, craft, and organization of informational texts. The authors emphasize how students can be taught the essential features of rhetorical analysis as well as skills in evaluating arguments, analyzing how an author develops a central idea, and examining supporting details that support a main idea. Ideas for differentiated products using the models are provided.
