practice with text complexity history/social studies
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Disciplinary Literacy Conference 2Practice with Text Complexity
History/Social Studies
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Today we will…
Review the 3 dimensions of text complexity
Analyze the 3 dimensions of text complexity using a social studies text
Synthesize data collected to identify an appropriate recommendation of the text for a classroom.
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Materials needed:
Text Complexity Diagnostic Tool
Text Complexity Quantitative Rubric
Text Complexity - Reader and Task Considerations
Text – Climate of Extremes
Text – Vote No on Women’s Suffrage
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How are the text complexity tools used to analyze text?
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Text complexity is determined by evaluating 3 instructional dimensions:
Quantitative
Qualitative
Reader and Task Considerations
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Quantitative Measure:
Includes readability of text best measured by computer software
Determined by: word length, frequency, and
difficulty sentence length text length text cohesion
One of the tools that can be used to evaluate the quantitative dimension
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Qualitative Measure:
Includes purpose, text structure, knowledge demands and language
Tool used to evaluate qualitative dimension
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Reader and Task Considerations:
Includes background knowledge of reader, motivation, interests, and complexity of tasks
Involves teacher judgment based on knowledge of students
Tool to evaluate reader and task
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How are the text complexity tools used to analyze text?
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Assess the text complexity
Use quantitative, qualitative, and reader and task measures to determine text complexity.
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To determine text complexity
1. Determine the quantitative measure of the text.
2. Analyze the qualitative measure of the text.
3. Reflect on the reader and task considerations.
4. Recommend placement in the appropriate text complexity band.
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Begin by reading and annotating the text “Vote No on Women’s Suffrage”
TEXT – VOTE NO ON WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE
COMPLETE A CLOSE READING WITH ANNOTATION
As you read:
Find key points and main ideas
Look for difficult passages
Note what is confusing
Pay attention to structure
Pay attention to vocabulary
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Notes on Qualitative Measure
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Step 1. Find the quantitative score
• Use a computer generated program to find the readability measure.
• We will use Flesch – Kincaid and Lexile to obtain scores.
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To find the Flesch – Kincaid score
2. Click on review.
3. Click on spelling and
grammar, then click through “ignore”.
1. Save text as a word document. Under options turn on readability statistics.
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Identify the readability statistics for your text
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Qualitative Measure
“Vote on Women’s Suffrage” Quantitative Score:
Flesh-Kincaid –10.6
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Determine the Text Complexity Grade Band
Grade Band 6-8
Quantitative Score: Flesh-Kincaid – 10.6
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Qualitative MeasureAnalyze the qualitative dimensions of
the text.
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Qualitative Text Factors in complex discipline-specific text
The New York Times 10-31-12
Humans to Blame? Science is OutHesitantly, climate scientists offered an answer this week that is likely to satisfy no one, themselves included. They simply do not know for sure if the storm was caused or made worse by human-induced global warming. They do know, however, that the resulting storm surge along the Atlantic coast was almost certainly intensified by decades of sea-level rise linked to human emissions of greenhouse gases. And they emphasized that Hurricane Sandy, whatever its causes, should be seen as a foretaste of trouble to come as the seas rise faster, the risks of climate change accumulate and the political system fails to respond. “We’re changing the environment — it’s very clear,” said Thomas R. Knutson, a research meteorologist with the government’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, N.J. “We’re changing global temperature, we’re changing atmospheric moisture, we’re changing a lot of things. Humans are running this experiment, and we’re not quite sure how it’s going to turn out.”
StructureComplex
sentences with many concepts.
PurposeIncludes examining complex, contested
information.
Knowledge Demands-Perspectives are complex, ideas
abstract.
Language Academic vocabulary,
dense concepts.
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Where on the continuum would you mark purpose?
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Purpose -
explicitly stated
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Where on the continuum would you mark text structure?
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Structure - mostly
complex
Features - complex
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Where on the continuum would you mark language?
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Language –
ComplexVocabulary
–Complex
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Where on the continuum would you mark knowledge demands?
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Knowledge Demands-
Mostly complex –
Inter-texuality -
Mostly complex
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Step 3: Reader and Task Considerations
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Complete the Qualitative Summary
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Use the Text Complexity Diagnostic Tool to summarize Reader and Task considerations
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Is this a complex text for your class?
Using data collected on the Diagnostic Tool for Text Complexity, is this a complex text?
What would be an appropriate grade level for this text?
What are the implications for instruction if you used this text?
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Notes:
Such factors as students’ motivation, knowledge, and experiences must also come into play in text selection. Students deeply interested in a given topic, for example, may engage with texts on that subject across a range of complexity.
Particular tasks may also require students to read more complex texts than they would normally.
Conversely, teachers who have had success using particular texts that are less complex than those required for a given grade band should continue their use. However, students should engage with texts of increasing text complexity during the year. By the end of the year, students should be reading grade level text as defined in CCSS 10.
http://missionliteracy.com Carrie Woznaik