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Measuring Text Complexity
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Rather than focusing exclusively on literacy skills, the Common Core State Standards set expectations for the complexity of texts students need to be able to read to be ready for college and careers.

This resource outlines three steps that will help teachers choose texts that are on grade level for the CCSS.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
OER Commons
Provider Set:
Common Core Reference Collection
Date Added:
03/04/2014
Accessing Complex Text Through Structured Conversations
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In this lesson students use a structured format (an adaptation of Think-Pair-Share) to discuss and deconstruct complex text. The new core standards emphasize the importance of developing students' speaking and listening skills as well as helping them access complex text through reading, re-reading, re-thinking, and re-examining.The purpose of this lesson is to get the students to focus and stay on topic while they talk. As a result, students are required to think more extensively about a topic by repeatedly reading and discussing with others.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Speaking and Listening
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Utah Education Network
Date Added:
08/12/2013
What Does Text Complexity Mean for English Learners and Language Minority Students?
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This paper addresses the implications, for ELLs, of the new standard's requirement that students be able to read and understand complex, informationally dense texts. The authors discuss the types of supports that learners need in order to work with complex texts. They also provide a sample of what academic discourse involves, using an excerpt from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail. They demonstrate how English learners can be provided with strategies for accessing complex texts, such as closely examining one sentence at a time. The authors argue that instruction must go beyond vocabulary and should begin with an examination of our beliefs about language, literacy and learning.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Education
English Language Arts
Language Education (ESL)
Reading Informational Text
Material Type:
Reading
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
Stanford University School of Education
Provider Set:
Understanding Language
Author:
Charles j. Fillmore
Lily Wong Fillmore
Date Added:
05/02/2012
Strategies For Reading and Comprehending Complex Scientific and Technology Text
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This lesson is designed for learners in adult basic education (low and high level adult secondary education). The purpose of this lesson is to teach a step-wise method that involves increased complexity reading material that assists learners with building a staircase type strategy for reading scientific and technology text proficiently. The lesson topic will include guiding students in how to ask themselves questions before during and after a passage. The questions will be used to build a staircase of information that can be compared to what they already know and personal experiences. This strategy will not only assist with appropriately answer reading passage questions but can be applied to reading and understanding complex texts for higher education and documents in the workplace.

Subject:
Applied Science
Life Science
Physical Science
Material Type:
Unit of Study
Date Added:
05/02/2016
Marking Up A Text
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 This plan was created by Jean Harper as part of the 2020 ESU-NDE  Learning Plan Project. Educators worked with coaches to create plans.The attached plan is designed for Grade 6 English Language Arts students. Students will read and comprehend texts that are complex.. This plan addresses the following NDE Standard: NE LA 6.1, LA 6.1.6.f, LA 6.1.6.oIt is expected that this plan will take students 60 minutes to complete.

Subject:
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Reading Informational Text
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Reading
Author:
jean harper
Date Added:
07/24/2020
Analyzing Informational Text
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In this lesson students use the Informational Text Analysis Tool to deconstruct the essential elements of informational text. Informational text is more important to teachers than ever before, especially with the rise of the new Core standards. The Library of Congress is an excellent resource for finding and using texts to build students' reading skills.Through a diverse array of classic and contemporary literature as well as challenging informational and primary source texts, students build knowledge, gain insights, explore possibilities, and broaden their perspective.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Reading Informational Text
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Utah Education Network
Date Added:
08/12/2013
Text marking for a purpose
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This lesson can work with any content standards.  It is a lesson for students to learn a text marking procedure.  Teachers and students can apply it to any non-fiction text on any non-fiction topic.  Extensions include academic speaking and writing prompts.  

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Language Education (ESL)
Languages
Literature
Reading Informational Text
Social Science
Material Type:
Assessment
Lesson Plan
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
David Krakow
Oregon Open Learning
Date Added:
06/15/2022
Using a Preview Checklist with Informational Text
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In this lessons students identify information from text using titles, subtitles, diagrams, charts, graphs, maps, photographs, illustrations, and captions by using a preview checklist.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Reading Informational Text
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Utah Education Network
Date Added:
08/12/2013
Analyze & Apply Author Tools in Informative Text
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This lesson focuses on the vocabulary and skills students need to define, identify, discuss and apply a variety of informative writing techniques. The texts in this lesson are infographics related to marginalized people. Students are asked to apply the techniques they learn to an informative text of their own. 

Subject:
English Language Arts
Language Education (ESL)
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Reading Informational Text
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Game
Lesson
Lesson Plan
Reading
Author:
Paige Myers
Oregon Open Learning
Date Added:
06/17/2022
Compost Text -- Out Teach
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Students will read the complex text on compost and use the outdoor space to verify or deny the content of the text in the real-world setting.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Out Teach
Date Added:
07/22/2021
Text Structures-Informational Writing/Mesopotamia Unit
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This 18 day unit explicitly teaches text structures, summary, text features, reading informational text about Mesopotamia, and writing a book about Mesopotamia. Instruction moves from high scaffolding to moderate scaffolding to independent practice as students become familiar with the various text structures, how to identify them, what graphic organizer will work with each text structure, how to use notes recorded in graphic organizers to write summaries, and how to compile an informational book. Mesopotamia is the content used as an anchor.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Reading Informational Text
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Unit of Study
Provider:
Utah Education Network
Date Added:
08/12/2013
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo, Exemplar Text
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This exemplar text is designed to give students the opportunity to use the reading and writing habits they’ve been practicing on a regular basis to absorb deep lessons from Kate DiCamillo’s story. By reading and rereading the passage closely and focusing their reading through a series of questions and discussion about the text, students will identify how and why the three main characters became friends.

* This text is extracted from a close reading exemplar produced and published by Student Achievement Partners

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Material Type:
Reading
Date Added:
11/11/2012
Erosion Text 4th-- Out Teach
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Students will read the provided complex text about erosion and use the outdoor space to verify or deny the content of the text in the real-world setting.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Out Teach
Date Added:
07/22/2021
BlendEd Best Practices Unit Text Structure
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In this unit students will define, identify, and explain 5 types of text structure. Students will explain how text and graphic features enhance a text. They will determine the type of figurative language used in a text. Students will summarize a given text.

Subject:
Education
English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Reading Literature
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Assessment
Homework/Assignment
Lesson
Lesson Plan
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Unit of Study
Date Added:
07/23/2020
Habitat Text 4th Grade -- Out Teach
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Students will read the provided complex text about habitat in the outdoor classroom and explore the area to make connections to the content in the text and draw inferences from the text.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Out Teach
Date Added:
07/22/2021
Habitat Text 5th Grade  -- Out Teach
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Students will read the provided complex text about habitat in the outdoor classroom and explore the area to make connections to the content in the text and draw inferences from the text.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Out Teach
Date Added:
07/22/2021