Evaluating Text Complexity: A Guide for Educators on Common Core Standards
This resource provides educators with an in-depth understanding of the Text Complexity Rubric aligned with Common Core Georgia Performance Standards. It assists in evaluating texts across qualitative and quantitative dimensions, ensuring proper placement within the curriculum. Educators will explore aspects such as levels of meaning, structure, language conventionality, and reader/task match. The rubric offers clear scoring guidelines to assess text appropriateness. Join us in refining text choices for student engagement and learning success.
Evaluating Text Complexity: A Guide for Educators on Common Core Standards
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Text Complexity Media Consortium West Georgia RESA Ann Marie Johnson ajohnson@garesa.org
Follow Along on Your Rubric COMMON CORE GEORGIA PERFORMANCE STANDARDS TEXT COMPLEXITY RUBRIC
What is the text complexity rubric? • Intended to assist educators in evaluating multiple dimensions of a text in order to determine the proper placement of that text within the curriculum. • The rubric addresses the three aspects of text complexity required for consideration in Common Core Appendix B: • qualitative, • quantitative • reader/task match
Scoring • 80 - 100 POINTS: EXTREMELY APPROPRIATE TEXT CHOICE • 50-79 POINTS: ACCEPTABLE TEXT CHOICE • 25-49 POINTS: RECONSIDER OR CHANGE GRADE/PURPOSE OF THIS TEXT CHOICE • 0 - 24 POINTS: ELIMINATE OR CHANGE GRADE/PURPOSE OF THIS TEXT CHOICE
Qualitative Dimensions • Levels of meaning • Structure • Language conventionality • Background knowledge
Quantitative Dimensions Which Lexile Band? • K-1 n/a • 2-3 450L - 790L • 4-5 770L - 980L • 6-8 955L - 1155L • 9-10 1080L - 1305L • 11-12 1215L - 1355L You will need to look up text using • www.lexile.com
Reader and Task Considerations • Does this text challenge readers? • Does this text match the interests of the students? • Is this text ideal for the task? • Mismatches for which qualitative and quantitative measures cannot easily account: • Withhold points based on areas of disconnect
Specific Merits • This category exists to allow evaluators to bestow additional points based on the unique merits of a text (e.g., a Newberry or Caldecott Award, or Nobel or Pulitzer Prize.) • A score of 10 means that this text has garnered positive acknowledgement from multiple authoritative sources.
GADOE • Are planning on creating a site to house completed rubrics made by educators on texts
Your Task • Find a partner • Choose a book or • Think of a title of a book you know and are extremely familiar with since you do not have it with you. • Complete the Text complexity Rubric • Be Prepared to share in 20 minutes
