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TEXT COMPLEXITY &
YOUR TEXT
Literacy Leadership TeamDiscussion Platform #3
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Overview & Goals
Text Complexity Review
Why the Emphasis on Text Complexity?
Rate YOUR Text
Instructional Implications
Homework: Identify Vocabulary
Next Steps – Planning for Roll-out to Faculty
AGENDA
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YOUR TEXTDid you do your
homework?You will need a nonfiction piece of text from your curriculum that could act as an anchor text for introducing a topic.
Text, Task, & Instruction3
WHY THE EMPHASIS ON
TEXT COMPLEXITY?1. Building knowledge through
content-rich nonfiction
2. Reading, writing, and speaking grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational
3. Regular practice with complex text and its academic language
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CCSS Anchor Reading Standard 10 :
Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.
Text, Task, & Instruction 5
WHY THE EMPHASIS ON TEXT COMPLEXITY?
Text, Task, & Instruction
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It changes drastically across grades 4-12.It increases in length & complexity:
abstract vocabulary termsdense conceptsnetwork of related conceptssentence structuretext organization (text structure)
Because shift happens with text, too…
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The Standards’ Model of Text Complexity
A Three-part Model for Measuring Text Complexity
Refer to Appendix A, page 4, for more information… Q
ualit
ativ
e
Quantitative
Reader and TaskREMEMBER THE
3 PARTS?
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Let's take a look...
TEXT, TASK, & INSTRUCTION
Shift 3: Regular practice with
complex text and its
academic language
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QUANTITATIVE MEASURE—using computer software:
• ATOS—use the following link: http://www.renlearn.com/atos/analyze.aspx?type=3
• Lexile—use the following link: http://lexile.com/
• Flesche-Kincaid—use Microsoft Office Word
Text Complexity & YOUR Text
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Keeping in mind the READER & TASK—
The inherent difficulty of reading and comprehending a text combined with the variables of both the reader and task.
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Text Complexity & YOUR Text
Qualitative Dimensions—
Require a human…or two
Let’s get started!13
Text Complexity & YOUR Text
The tools Florida uses for rating text are:
1. Common Core Standards Qualitative Features of Text Complexity—Explained
2. Qualitative Dimensions of Text Complexity Charts by grade band
Rating Your Text
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Each passage should be read by at least two people (or more)
List the evidence from the passage for the features of text complexity in each category using the criteria from the Common Core Standards Qualitative Features of Text Complexity—Explained
Using your best judgment, rate the passage on each grade band for each category as well.
Rate the overall placement of the passage with justification as simple, moderate, or complex.
Steps for Rating Your Text
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With a partner, use the Text Complexity Chart to discuss:
1. THE RANGE OF COMPLEXITY From easy to complex & For each text characteristic
2. HOW DOES TEXT COMPLEXITY IMPACT:
Your content area instruction?Student learning in your content area classroom?
Do or do not... there is no try. -Yoda
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What about the Vocabulary?A quick introduction…
Tier 2 Words (General Academic Words)Words are generally useful for students to
know and are likely to encounter with some frequency in their reading
Not unique to a particular discipline –and are not the clear responsibility of a particular content area teacher
Tier 3 Words (Discipline-Specific)Words that are important to understanding a
specific reading selection or concept. 18
HomeworkWHAT ARE THE CORE UNDERSTANDINGS
AND KEY IDEAS OF YOUR TEXT? Add this to your planning template.
READ APPENDIX A: pages 33 & 34.
CHOOSE THE BEST WORDS TO TEACH— Identify Tier 2 and Tier 3 words from your text and add the words to your planning template.
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Next Up: LLT Discussion Platforms #4
& #5
#4: OVERVIEW OF TEXT-DEPENDENT
QUESTIONS
#5: TEXT-DEPENDENT QUESTIONS AND YOUR
TEXT
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You will need to bring your text for Discussion
Platform #5.
Hold on to your text from Platform #3—you will use it to write text-dependent questions with your text in Platform #5: TEXT-DEPENDENT QUESTIONS & YOUR TEXT.
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HOW WILL YOUR LITERACY LEADERSHIP TEAM ROLL THIS OUT TO THE ENTIRE FACULTY?
ROLL OUT
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Thank you!
Text, Task, & Instruction