Text+Complexity

Lab Activities

 * Make an account at Lexile
 * Rewriting a Folktale: use Microsoft Word or Readability-Score.com
 * Daniel Willingham Video: //Teaching Content IS Teaching Reading//

Measuring Complexity
Fountas and Pinnell Lexile Framework for Reading The Wind in the Willows

Sources for Texts
Library Catalog and Finding Book Levels in Follett NewsELA Online Resources ReadWorks.org

Tools for Finding Levels
Coh-Metrix Web Tools Coh-Metrix Analysis of Appendix B Exemplar Texts Lexile-to-Grade Chart Readability-Score

Qualitative Measures
What a formula can't measure Searching by Series, Genre "Book Clubs" Rubric for Informational Texts Rubric for Literary Texts

Tools for Students and Teachers
AR Book Finder Lexile "Find A Book" Brain Hive interest inventory Scholastic Book Wizard

More Reading
//Common Core: Factors in Measuring Text Complexity: ELA Standard 10.// CCSSI, 2014. Accessed 1 July 2014. //Common Core: Appendix A: Research Supporting Key Elements of the Standards.// CCSSI, 2014. Accessed 1 July 2014. Common Core: Appendix B: Exemplars. CCSSI, 2014. Accessed 17 July 2014. //Text Complexity.// TextProject, 2014. Accessed 1 July 2014. A Beginner's Guide to Text Complexity. AUSSIE, 2014. Accessed 1 July, 2014. //Looking at Complex Texts More Complexly (Or What's Wrong With This Picture?).// To Make a Prairie, blog, 2014. Accessed 3 July 2014.