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Day 3

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REFLECT AND RESPOND

Text Complexity

Part 4

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•Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction

•Reading, writing and speaking grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational

•Regular practice with complex text and its academic language

ELA/Literacy Instructional Shifts

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Access to complex texts is crucial to college and

career readiness.

Big Idea:

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Essential Questions• How does understanding text complexity support

implementation of the instructional shifts?

• How do the Common Core State Standards define text

complexity?

• What does “text complexity band” mean in the CCSS?

• How can we use three factors for “measuring” text complexity?

• How do we choose texts and what existing resources can we

access?

• Which SAUSD strategies support planning and instruction with

complex texts for all students including English learners?

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Text Complexity

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Text Complexity and the Common Core State

Standards

Please read…Please read…– 7 Actions that Teachers Can Take Right

Now: Text Complexity (Hiebert, 2012)

•Highlight 2 key sentences or phrases from the text. Record them on an index card. •Be prepared to share using the structure: “Save the Last Word for Me”.

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Save the Last Word for Me

1. Choose a speaker to begin.

2. The speaker reads one of the excerpts recorded on the index card.

3. In turn, each group member responds to the excerpt. Then, the first speaker makes a final comment.

*Note: This is not a dialogue. Do not engage in cross talk.

4. A new speaker continues the process

each member has shared a card.

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Reflection on Article

• Which actions would you implement and why?

• Which SAUSD strategies support the 7 Actions Hiebert recommends?