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Determining Text Complexity: The Model in Action

Determining Text Complexity: The Model in Action. For illustrative purposes, let’s choose Harper Lee’s 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Determining Text Complexity. A Four-step Process:. Determine the quantitative measures of the text. Quantitative. Qualitative.

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Determining Text Complexity: The Model in Action

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  1. Determining Text Complexity:The Model in Action For illustrative purposes, let’s choose Harper Lee’s 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

  2. Determining Text Complexity A Four-step Process: Determine the quantitative measures of the text. Quantitative Qualitative Analyze the qualitative measures of the text. Reader and Task Reflect upon the reader and task considerations. Recommend placement in the appropriate text complexity band.

  3. Step 1: Quantitative Measures • Measures such as: • Word length • Word frequency • Word difficulty • Sentence length • Text length • Text cohesion

  4. Step 1: Quantitative Measures 870L Lexile Text Measure: 5.6 ATOS Book Level: In which of the text complexity bands would this novel fall?

  5. Kansas Common Core Standards Quantitative Measures Ranges for Text Complexity Grade Bands * The K-1 suggested Lexile range was not identified by the Common Core State Standards and was added by Kansas. ** Taken from Accelerated Reader and the Common Core State Standards, available at the following URL: http://doc.renlearn.com/KMNet/R004572117GKC46B.pdf

  6. Step 2: Qualitative Measures • Measures such as: • Levels of meaning • Levels of purpose • Structure • Organization • Language conventionality • Language clarity • Prior knowledge demands

  7. Step 2: Qualitative Measures

  8. Step 2: Qualitative Measures From examining the quantitative measures, we knew: 870L Lexile Text Measure: 5.6 ATOS Book Level: But after reflecting upon the qualitative measures, we believed:

  9. Step 3: Reader and Task • Considerations such as: • Motivation • Knowledge and experience • Purpose for reading • Complexity of task assigned regarding text • Complexity of questions asked regarding text

  10. Step 3: Reader and Task Considerations

  11. Step 4: Recommended Placement After reflecting upon all three legs of the text complexity model we can make a final recommendation of placement within a text and begin to document our thinking for future reference.

  12. Step 4: Recommended Placement Based upon all the information—all three legs of the model—the final recommendation for To Kill a Mockingbird is….

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