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Organization and Structure
Strand
(Focus Topic)
College and
Career Readiness
Anchor Standard
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College and
Career Readiness
Anchor Standard
(Focus Topic)
College and
Career Readiness
Anchor Standard
GradeSpecific
Standard
GradeSpecific
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GradeSpecific
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Organization and Structure
Sample ELA/Literacy Standards
Focus Topics from College and
Career Readiness Anchor Standards
RL.K.3
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Organization and Structure
Coding Scheme
RI . 4 . 2
Strand
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Grade
Standard Number
3
Organization and Structure
Coding Scheme
L . K . 2b
Strand
Grade
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Standard Number
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Horizontal and Vertical Alignment
Horizontal Alignment a.k.a Integration
Reading Standards
Read and understand
what read, including
for research
Speaking and
Listening Standard 4
Share findings from
research
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Writing Standard 7
Conduct research
Writing Standard 9
Draw evidence from
reading
Horizontal and Vertical Alignment
“While the standards delineate
specific expectations in reading,
writing, speaking, listening, and
language, each standard need not
be a separate focus for instruction
and assessment. Often, several
standards can be addressed by a
single rich task” (p. 5, CCSS).
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Horizontal and Vertical Alignment
Integration Examples
• Pair literary texts with informational texts
• Locate evidence from texts to support written answers in
questions and tasks
• Present information researched in tasks
• Study language conventions in reading texts
• Include questions and tasks that address standards many
times in varied ways with multiple texts
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Horizontal and Vertical Alignment
Vertical Alignment a.k.a. Progression
RI.4.5
RI.5.5
• Describe the overall
structure (e.g., chronology,
comparison, cause/effect,
problem/solution) of events,
ideas, concepts, or
information in a text or part
of a text.
• Compare and contrast the
overall structure (e.g.,
chronology, comparison,
cause/effect,
problem/solution) of events,
ideas, concepts, or
information in two or more
texts.
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Horizontal and Vertical Alignment
Vertical Alignment a.k.a. Progression
RF.1.4a, b, c
RF.2.4a, b, c
Read with sufficient accuracy and
fluency to support comprehension.
a. Read grade-level text with
purpose and understanding.
b. Read grade-level text orally with
accuracy, appropriate rate, and
expression on successive
readings.
c. Use context to confirm or selfcorrect word recognition and
understanding, rereading as
necessary.
Read with sufficient accuracy and
fluency to support comprehension.
a. Read grade-level text with
purpose and understanding.
b. Read grade-level text orally with
accuracy, appropriate rate, and
expression on successive
readings.
c. Use context to confirm or selfcorrect word recognition and
understanding, rereading as
necessary.
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Content Shifts
English Language Arts and Literacy
Content Shifts
Main Goal of the CCSS for ELA/Literacy
Students will read and
understand grade-level complex
text independently and
proficiently and express that
understanding clearly through
writing and speaking about text.
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Content Shifts
3 Shifts
6 Shifts
Regular practice with
complex text and its
academic vocabulary
3. Appropriately complex text
Building knowledge
through content-rich
nonfiction and
informational text
1. Balance literature and informational text
(K-5)
Reading and writing
grounded in evidence
from text
4. Questions regarding text are
text-dependent
6. Academic vocabulary
2. Literacy as part of science and social
studies/history; informational text as
part of ELA (6-12)
5. Writing to inform or argue using
evidence
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ELA/Literacy: 3 shifts
1. Building knowledge through content-rich
nonfiction and informational text
2. Reading and writing grounded in evidence from text
3. Regular practice with complex text and its academic
vocabulary
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Content Shift #1:
Regular practice with complex text
and its academic vocabulary
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Regular practice with complex text
• What is the appropriate text to teach at each grade
level? Defined by…
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Reading Standard 10
Reading Foundational Skills Standard 4 (K-5)
Text Complexity and Text Types (Page 31)
Page 32
Appendix A and Appendix B
• The Publishers’ Criteria further refines that criteria.
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Reading Standard 10
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Reading Standards for Text Complexity
Kindergarten
Grade 1
(Literary Texts)
(Informational Texts)
(Reading Foundational Skills)
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Grade 2
Reading Standards for Text Complexity
Grade 3
Grade 4
(Literary Texts)
(Informational Texts)
(Reading Foundational Skills)
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Grade 5
Children at the kindergarten and grade 1 levels should be expected to
read texts independently that have been specifically written to correlate
to their reading level and their word knowledge. Many of the titles listed
above are meant to supplement carefully structured independent
reading with books to read along with a teacher or that are read aloud
to students to build knowledge and cultivate a joy in reading.
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Additional Text Selection Criteria
• Staircase of text complexity
– Read-aloud texts well above grade-level band; read-along texts
in grade-level band; independent reading at reading level of
student
– Extensive opportunities to encounter complex text
• Through read aloud and read along
• 50/50 balance between literature and informational text
• High-quality texts, worth reading and rereading, richly
illustrated, when appropriate, and well written
• Reading foundations key to success with complex text
(learn to read and read to learn simultaneously)
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Text Complexity Definition
(page 31 and Appendix A)
Reader and Task
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Resources for Determining Text Complexity
(Appendix A, Page 32 and Appendix B, and Other Tools)
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Resources for Determining Text Complexity
(Appendix A, Page 32 and Appendix B, and Other Tools)
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Content Shift #1
Resources for Determining Text Complexity
(Appendix A, Page 32 and Appendix B, and Other Tools)
• Text Complexity Grade-Band Level Chart
• Text Complexity Qualitative Rubrics
• Text Complexity Questions for Reader and Task
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Determining Text Complexity – Appendix A
• Text Complexity Process
– Quantitative – place in grade-level band
• Lexile, ATOS, Flesch-Kincaid, etc.
• Text complexity chart (updated)
– Qualitative – further define where to use within band
• Rubrics
• Professional judgment
– Reader and Task – further define how best to teach text
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Is the content appropriate for age level?
What areas are potentially difficult for students?
What vocabulary should be taught?
What is the big idea and key student understandings?
What questions/tasks will get at those understandings and what
standards align with those understandings?
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Text Complexity Analysis Practice
Read “Insect Olympics”
• Quantitative Measures
– ATOS: 4.4
– Flesch-Kincaid (FK): 4.5
– In what grade-level band does this article fit?
• Qualitative Measures
– Use the appropriate rubric to analyze the article
• Reader and Task
– What should be taught with this text?
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Vocabulary Tiers
Academic (Tier II)
• consequence
• criteria
• substantial
• justify
• persist
• (words essential for
meaning, but not often
easily defined in the
text)
Domain-Specific (Tier III)
• hyperbole
• metaphor
• cell wall
• amoeba
• equation
• GDP
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Academic vocabulary is essential.
• Role in complex text
• One of two features of text most predictive of student
difficulty (Chall 1996, Stanovich 1986, Nelson et al 2012)
• There is in fact a great deal of powerful academic
vocabulary in these texts.
• From, “Officer Buckle” third grade (department, attention,
speech, applauded, frowned, onstage, swivel, frowned,
afterward, announced, discovered, grinned, roared,
enormous, bowed)
• Vocabulary is difficult to catch up
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Academic Vocabulary
Which words should be taught?
– Essential to text
– Likely to appear in future text
Which words should get more time and attention?
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More abstract words (persist vs. checkpoint noticed vs.
accident)
– Words which are part of semantic word family (secure,
securely, security, secured)
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Academic Vocabulary
• When should you provide the meaning; when should
students determine from context?
• How should words be taught?
– Distributed practice
– Use the text
--Differences (applaud vs. clap; isolated vs. alone)
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Reading Foundations
• Explicit and systematic instruction (focus on sequenced
and structured teaching of phonological awareness)
• Need lots of distributed practice
• Need ongoing diagnostic support (assessment)
• Should be happening simultaneously with read alouds of
complex text
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Building knowledge through
content-rich nonfiction and
informational text
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Read-Alouds with Informational Text
• 50/50 balance
• As students are learning to read in K-1, they should also
exercise their ability to comprehend complex text
through listening and responding to read-aloud texts
• In grades 2+, students begin reading more complex texts
through read alongs, thus consolidating the foundational
skills with reading comprehension.
• Reading aloud texts that are well-above grade level
should be done throughout K-5 and beyond.
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Sequencing Texts to Build Knowledge
• Literacy in social studies/history, science, and technical
subjects embedded in K-5; connections to content areas
• Additional resources referenced on Evaluation Tool l #2
– Page 33 in the CCSS for ELA/Literacy
– PARCC Model Content Frameworks
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Content Shift #2
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Content Shift #3:
Reading and writing grounded in
evidence from text
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Reading and Writing Grounded in Evidence
• Students demonstrate understanding of text in writing,
speaking, and research.
• Writing to sources
– Text-dependent questions
– “Evidence Standards” : Reading Standard 1 and Writing
Standard 9
• Research tasks
– Develop from the text and topics studied
– Offer students chance to reflect on a text or topic and connect it
to other texts, events, or ideas (compare/contrast, investigate
concept or idea, explore real-life connections, etc.) AFTER
students fully demonstrate understanding of individual text
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Text-Dependent Questions
• Questions that can only be answered with evidence from
the text
• Can be literal but can also involve analysis, synthesis,
evaluation
• Focus on word, sentence and paragraph as well as
larger ideas, themes or events
• Focus on difficult portions of text in order to enhance
reading proficiency
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Text-Dependent Questions
1. In “Casey at the Bat,” Casey
strikes out. Describe a time
when you failed at something.
2. In “Letter from a Birmingham
Jail,” Dr. King discusses
nonviolent protest. Discuss, in
writing, a time when you
wanted to fight against
something that you felt was
unfair.
3. In “The Gettysburg Address”
Lincoln says the nation is
dedicated to the proposition
that all men are created equal.
Why is equality an important
value to promote?
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What makes Casey’s
experiences at bat humorous?
What can you infer from King’s
letter about the letter that he
received?
“The Gettysburg Address”
mentions the year 1776.
According to Lincoln’s speech,
why is this year significant to
the events described in the
speech?
Content Shift #3
Why use text-dependent questions?
• More time outside the text less inside
• Going outside the text privileges those who have that
experience
• It is easier to talk about our experiences than to analyze
the text
• That being said….
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Why limit pre-reading?
• Multiple readings often make this unnecessary
• Too often provides information students can glean from
careful reading of the text- in many cases provide a
complete summary
• Almost impossible to wean students from this
• Similarly challenging to move teachers away from
providing this “smoothing of the road”
• Research base?
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Text-dependent questions should…
• Be focused around the big ideas and key understandings
of a text (allow students to demonstrate understanding of
what is most important in the text); not a reading strategy
or device that is not important to understanding.
• Use standards to provide specific wording and
expectations for knowledge (standards are not the focus)
• Focus student attention on difficult sections of text
• Expect thorough response
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Culminating Activities
• Should relate to big ideas and key understandings
• These types of culminating assignments will be a
significant shift for students and teachers
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Academic Vocabulary
and Text-Dependent Questions
From “Hot and Cold Summer” Trophies 5th grade:
• “To avoid someone means to keep away from them so
that you don’t have to see them and they don’t have to
see you. How did the boys avoid meeting Bolivia at first?
(pg. 23)”
• Re-read the last two paragraphs on page 39. Rory had a
“strong suspicion”. What is a suspicion? What details in
the story made Rory suspicious of Bolivia?
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Additional Alignment Considerations
Syntax
• Possibly as much as vocabulary predicts student
performance
• Questions and tasks addressing syntax
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Additional Alignment Considerations
Fluency
• We must address fluency.
• With the arrival of more complex text, more students will
struggle to read fluently.
• How to address this?
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Close Reading Exemplar
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Close Reading Exemplar
• Listen to the read aloud as instructed by the text.
• Think about the types of questions being asked and
alignment to CCSS.
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Close Reading Exemplar
Not Aligned to CCSS – Many basal reading
programs
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Many questions not text dependent
Virtually all culminating assignments not text dependent
Focus on comprehension strategies
Do not focus as strongly on academic (Tier II) vocabulary
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Close Reading Exemplar
Not Aligned to CCSS – Many basal reading
programs
• Do not typically “within and across grade
levels…systematically develop the knowledge base of
students”
• Some number of texts not aligned in terms of complexity
• Typical lack of balance between narrative and
informational texts at each grade level
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Close Reading Exemplar
Not Aligned to CCSS – Many basal reading
programs
Vocabulary and Leveled Text – 4th Grade Example
• Shelter, splattered, fixed, rescue
• Journal, tremors, traction, interval, volunteered, retrieve
• Generation, abandoned, languished, terrified, warble,
galvanized, debris, hoisted, shuddered
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