Resources - Text Complexity
The Olympic Educational Service District provides links to articles and activities relating to Text Complexity
Lexiles
Lexile measures are powerful, versatile tools that educators can use to help their students grow as readers. When you use both Lexile reader measures and Lexile text measures, you can treat each student as an individual learner, rather than as below-grade, on-grade or above-grade. This website allows the teacher to find the lexile measure for almost any book.
Reading/Writing Connection
Ohio Performance Assessment Pilot Project – English Language Arts 2010‐11 Pilot
Americans Dreaming: Teacher Guide
A thematic lesson using multiple texts and varied writing and speaking activities
Achieve the Core provides many resources to help understand text complexity
“7 Actions that Teachers Can Take Right Now: Text Complexity – ElfriedaHiebert”
A separate standard for text complexity in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) means that this feature of reading development is at the center of many conversations among educators. How this standard translates into classroom instruction is less clear. Even with current texts, teachers can take some important actions to support their students on the staircase of text complexity—right now!
The Kentucky Dept. of Education has provided resources to support implementation of the ELA standards.
Resources - Writing
Appendix C- Text Exemplars The text samples exemplify the level of complexity and quality that the Standards require all students in a given grade band to engage with. They are suggestive of the breadth of texts that students should encounter. The choices should serve as useful guideposts in helping educators select texts of similar complexity, quality, and range for their own classrooms. They expressly do not represent a partial or complete reading list.
Teaching Writing Strategies - Steve Graham Vanderbilt University
Common Core Writing In Action
The Common Core Writing Standards for Literacy require students to engage in disciplinary specific writing tasks. And for each type of writing, there are a number of skills that our students must learn in order to write well.LiteracyTA has created the Teacher Assistant (TA), student resources, and professional development for teachers that put the Common Core Writing Standards for Literacy into action. The table below provides links to resources that teachers should use to help implement the Common Core Literacy Standards.
Facing History
This resource aligns our Civil Rights Historical Investigations units with the Common Core State Standards through an argumentative writing assessment.
The three Civil Rights Historical Investigations units require students to "do" history—to gather evidence from primary documents, use that evidence to make claims about the past, and then apply what they learn to their own lives today. This supplement includes specific writing prompts and teaching strategies that ask students to use this evidence to craft a formal argumentative essay about the civil rights movement. In addition, the resource features effective writing strategies for the social studies classroom.
8 Strategies for Designing LessonPlans to Meet the CCSS Opinion andArgument Writing Requirements
In this white paper, the author looks at what argumentation really means,what the standards specifically require at each grade level, and how teacherscan create lesson plans to meet these new requirements