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Tag Archives: Text Complexity
Presentation Materials from Bay Area CCSS Summit
As part of the Third Annual San Francisco Bay Area Common Core State Standards Summit, convened by the Contra Costa County Office of Education, educators worked through research and materials match to the CCSS and vetted through Washoe’s Core Task … Continue reading
Posted in Core Task Project
Tagged Bay Area Summit, CCSS, Common Core, Contra Costa, IPG, Text Complexity
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Common Core Learning Modules
We have gotten a lot of requests for the learning modules, matched to the Common Core and the Instructional Shifts, that were developed last summer. You can access them, if you have an Edmodo account, here. (If you do not … Continue reading
Posted in Professional Development, Social Emotional Learning
Tagged 21st Century, Common Core, ELL, modules, SBAC, SEL, Speaking and Listening, talking, Text Complexity
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Integrating Fluency and Syntax Instruction with Complex Text
In the video linked here, Dr. Timothy Shanahan describes the value of students developing fluency with “hard” text and its syntax. Although the video is short, it is includes a lot of good information including a short lesson demonstration of … Continue reading
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Tagged fluency, lesson demonstration, Shanahan, syntax, Text Complexity, video
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CTiP Year 2 Begins with a Close Look at Core Action 1
Elementary schools, that finished the first year of the Core Task implementation Project, started year 2 of this professional learning experience. The focus, of the first of four sessions, was on Core Action 1 from the Instructional Practice Guides. Educators … Continue reading
The Limitations of Using Readability Scores
Relying on the quantitative features of text complexity can be limiting and misleading. This is nicely demonstrated in a video posted by Montgomery County Public Schools (here) in which viewers learn how changing two words in a passage lowers the … Continue reading
Finishing the Labor of Understanding before Talking Back
In a piece for Educational Leadership, professor of English Mark Bauerlein describes the importance of text complexity and the dispositions students will need if they are going to be successful with this outcome. These include A Willingness to Probe The … Continue reading
Session 4 of Leading the Core
District administrators gathered for the fourth session of Leading the Core. The focus of this session was on teacher observations, close reading look fors, text-dependent questions and tools to build site capacity. All of the resources are posted in the … Continue reading
“Simplifying” Complex Text
How do you identify complex texts? And how do you design tasks that take into account text complexity? These two questions are featured in this video from Sarah Brown Wessling. The video is a nice place to start for educators … Continue reading
Text Complexity and Emergent and Early Readers
Are you curious about increasing rigor and text complexity for emergent and early readers? Core Shift Blast 6 offers some help in this area and includes field notes from Sun Valley kindergarten teacher Laurie Johns. Click here to read the … Continue reading
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Tagged Core Shift Blast, emergent readers, Laurie Johns, Text Complexity, Torrey Palmer
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Core Task Project 