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Getting ThereFrom Here
Elizabeth BassfordDirector of Literacy
Pearson
Why do we need them? Why now?
…End of the year, grade-by-grade descriptions of what students should know and be able to do
(performances) in reading, writing,
speaking and listening, and language competency.
What are they?
What is the real goal?
Make comprehension a verb.
What is the big game-changer?
A significant instructional shift that is task-based, requiring rigorous attention to text
through close
reading
of deliberately increasing complexity.
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K–1
2–3
4–5
6–8
9–10
11‐CCR
Text Complexity
Grade Band in the
CCSS
Old Lexile Ranges
N/A
450–725
645–845
860–1010
960–1115
1070–1220
Lexile Ranges
Aligned to College and
Career Readiness
Expectations
N/A
450–790
770–980
955–1155
1080–1305
1215–1355
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What’s the big deal?
Equity.
What We
Read Influences What We
Learn
When some students have access to complex text and others do not, the reading gap
(that
often causes teachers to assign less complex text to low-performing students) contributes to a knowledge gap.
(Stanovich, 2000; Neuman, 2006).
• read substantially fewer in-context words,
• are asked fewer critical thinking questions,
• have fewer opportunities for discussion,
• have fewer opportunities to write.
(Allington, 1983; Hiebert, 1983)
True, and--Text difficulty resides in
◦
the linguistic characteristics of the text
◦
the characteristics of the reader
◦
the actions of the teacher.
(Quantitative/Qualitative)
Reading complex text supports:
• Acquisition of sophisticated vocabulary, concepts, and linguisticstructures, and
• Development of critical thinking abilities,
• Vocabulary, concepts, linguistic structures,and general knowledge acquired throughreading complex text “anchors”
further
reading and learning.
Deliberate Use of Text Types
Complex texts support the acquisitionand use of sophisticated:
VocabularyConceptsLinguistic structuresRhetorical structuresGeneral Knowledge
Achieve Balance…
Read Like a Detective! Write Like a Reporter!
Ask Questions
Gather Evidence
Make Your Case
Prove It!
Love what you teach.
…and speaking of meaning…
The Pleasant Life
The Good Life(eudaemonia)
The Meaningful Life
…the larger the thing that you can credibly attach yourself to, while using your highest strengths, the more meaning you get out of life.
The first major conduit for humanitarianism was the printing press.
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declinedby Steven Pinker, 2011
Let the beauty you love be what you do.
There are one hundred ways to kneel
and kiss the ground.
-Rumi
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