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  • Text Complexity

    Rather than focusing exclusively on literacy skills, college- and career-ready standards, including the Common Core, set expectations for the complexity of texts students need to be able to read.  This collection includes tools to help with each step and research to support teachers' understanding of text complexity.  To plan a close-reading lesson with text complexity in mind, use the Lesson Planning Tool.

  • To choose texts that are on grade level for the CCSS and other college- and career-ready standards, use three steps:

    1. Use quantitative measures to assign a text to a grade band.
    2. Use qualitative measures to locate a text within a specific grade band.
    3. Use professional judgment to decide how suited a text is for a specific instructional purpose with a particular set of students.

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  • Complete the activity for Core Action 1 to learn more about Text Complexity.

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  • Select and analyze texts by reflecting on the identities of educators and the students they serve, using multiple lenses, and considering implications for use in specific contexts.

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