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“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...
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“How Can I Teach with Books that are Two Years above Student Reading Levels?”
Dr. Timothy Shanahan addresses a question many of us have been asking as we work with CC Standard 10 and the importance of allowing all students to work with grade level complex text. That is, “How can...
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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...
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Text Complexity and the Common Core
MetaMetrics recorded a webinar on Valentines describing the importance of text complexity and the Common Core. Specific topics that may interest readers have been marked below. Minute 6:45 The Crisis...
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Shanahan on CCSS Policy (Webinar)
Text Project has posted a free webinar on the Common Core with CCSS Work Team member Dr. Timothy Shanahan (here). Shanahan moves viewers through some familiar stuff including the genesis of CCSS and...
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First Person Account of Close Reading
In a piece for Teachers.net, English teacher Sarah Powley describes her experience with close reading. She matches here experience from when she started as a novice educator to a veteran in noting the...
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In 77 Seconds: Accessible vs. Dumbed-Down Text
Dr. Freddy Hiebert takes literally 77 seconds to compare accessible and dumbed-down text. She notes that dumbed-down text relies on short sentences, bizarre topics , and phonetically regular words....
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Classroom Discussions around Text
In the video linked here, Dr. David Pearson describes the value of strong classroom discussions around text. He posits that there are three elements of strong classroom discourse which include 1)...
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A Parents Guide to the Instructional Shifts
In a piece for his blog View out the windshield, Geoff Belleau outlines the “instructional shifts” and the implications for parents. He notes that there is a lot of advice for teachers but not enough...
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Complex Text: It’s Complicated
Laura Varlas shares a piece for Education Update on the importance of text complexity and strategies for accessing standard 10 (here). She underscores the importance of keeping instruction anchored in...
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Close Reading—Six Months Later (Core Shifts Blast 13)
Core Shifts Blast 13 focuses on close reading and what the district and the Curriculum & Instruction Department have learned over the last six months. Kim Price, a Common Core Champion and 4th...
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Are Your Materials Aligned to CCSS?
A popular question is, “How do I know if the resources I am using are aligned to the Common Core?” One way to assist with finding this answer is to use the EQuIP Rubric for Lessons and Units (3rd...
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Complexity of What Students are Reading is Declining
NPR has posted a story describing what students are reading in out of school. Mellissa Block shares research from Renaissance Learning demonstrating that the complexity or difficulty of what students...
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Close Reading: Strategies and Practice
Dr. Steven Gehrke, from the University of Nevada, Reno, led Washoe educators through strategies and practice to promote the habit of close reading. Attendees worked through several poems including...
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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...
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Instructional Move 1: Text at the Center of Instruction
Positioning text so that it is at the center of instruction is challenging, to say the least. Thus, as part of Core Task Project and Core Task implementation Project trainings, specific moves have been...
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More Teacher Created CK Supplements Uploaded to 63000Resources
We continue to add teacher created Core Knowledge materials to www.63000resources.com. Over the winter break we posted 50 documents from Monique Scott, Heather Hanifen, Emily Poertner, and DeAnna...
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