a dapted from: kccs text complexity team mcopeland@ksde
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Text Complexity. a dapted from: KCCS Text Complexity Team [email protected]. LEQ. How do I select appropriate texts to support the standards?. Activating Strategy Video Overview of Text Complexity. Text Complexity- Why I s This Important?. Ripe Figs. Ripe Figs Read “Ripe Figs .”. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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