The purpose of this study was to investigate the role textbooks can play on writing complexity and lexical density as a proxy for critical thinking and ultimately learning, in relation to argumentative and summative writing when integrated with a virtual reality experience. In this study, differences in writing complexity and lexical density scores were measured across four different On Developing Readers: Readings from Educational Leadership (EL Essentials) This collection of articles pulls together some of the best articles on the teaching of reading that Educational Leadership has published in the past few years from more than a