a dapted from: kccs text complexity team mcopeland@ksde

adapted from:

KCCS Text Complexity Teammcopeland@ksde.org

Text Complexity

LEQ

• How do I select appropriate texts to support the standards?

Activating StrategyVideo Overview of Text Complexity

Text Complexity- Why Is This Important?

Ripe Figs

Ripe FigsRead “Ripe Figs.”

Assignment

Elementary Weaving a California Tradition by Linda Yamone

Lexile:760Task: Explain how the author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text.

SecondaryWhy We Shouldn’t Go To Mars by Gregg Wasterbrook

Lexile: 1370Task: Evaluate the argument, assessing whether the reasoning and evidence is relevant and sufficient.

A Four-step Process:

Determining Text Complexity

4. Recommend placement in the appropriate text complexity band.

3. Reflect upon the reader and task considerations.

2. Analyze the qualitative measures of the text.

1. Determine the quantitative measures of the text.

Summarizing• How do I select appropriate texts to support

the standards?

Qualitative

Quantitative

Reader/Task

Final Thoughts

• not a re-delivery presentation• teacher planning• new assessments• frustration vs. productive struggle