1 / 23

CCSS & Collection Development

CCSS & Collection Development . sstone@pps.net. ELA COMMON CORE “SHIFTS”. Content and Language Goals. Participants will: Understand the CCSS text complexity model Participants will: Think about and discuss the impact of t ext c omplexity model on collection development. .

hashim
Download Presentation

CCSS & Collection Development

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. CCSS & Collection Development sstone@pps.net

  2. ELA COMMON CORE “SHIFTS”

  3. Content and Language Goals Participants will: Understand the CCSS text complexity model Participants will: Think about and discuss the impact of text complexity model on collection development.

  4. Group KWL: CCSS

  5. What the Research Says • The difficulty of high school textbooks have declined in all subject areas over the last several decades • Average length of sentences in K-8 textbooks has declined from 20 to 14 words • Vocabulary demands have declined since the 1960s: • 8th grade textbooks = former 5th grade texts • 12th grade anthologies = former 7th grade texts • Complexity of college and career texts has remained steady or increased, resulting in a gap.

  6. Why Text Complexity Matters • Too many students are reading at too low a level - Less than 50% of high school graduates can read sufficiently complex texts

  7. Critical thinking skills -- What students could read, in terms of its complexity, was at least as important as what they could do with what they read.

  8. TEXT COMPLEXITY

  9. Text Complexity is defined by: • Quantitative Measures - readability and other scores of text complexity often best measured by computer software. • Qualitative Measures - levels of meaning, structure, language conventionality and clarity, and knowledge demands often best measured by an attentive human reader. • Reader and Task -background knowledge of reader, motivation, interests, and complexity generated by tasks assigned often best made by educators employing their professional judgment.

  10. Quantitative Measures: • Word length • Word frequency • Word difficulty • Sentence length • Text length • Text cohesion Many formulas to determine quantitative measures exist …

  11. Text Complexity Grade Bands and Associated Ranges from Various Measures

  12. “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” Quantitative Measures

  13. Old vs. New Lexile Grade Bands

  14. Portrait of Adult Reading Demands 1360L Aetna Health Care Discount Form 1280L Medical Insurance Benefit Package 1270L Application for Student Loan 1260L Federal Tax Form W-4 1170L Installing Child Safety Seat Directions 1150L Microsoft Windows User Manual 1150L GM Protection Plan 1080L CD-DVD Player Instructions What do you notice?

  15. Remember… Our final recommendation may be validated, influenced, or even over-ruled by our examination of qualitative measures and the reader and task considerations.

  16. Qualitative • Measures : • Levels of meaning • Levels of purpose • Structure • Organization • Language conventionality • Language clarity • Prior knowledge demands Rubric for Literary Text AND for Informational Text

  17. Allows educators to evaluate the important elements of text that are often missed by computer software Qualitative Rubrics Literary Text Qualitative RubricInformational Text Qualitative Rubric

  18. Qualitative Measures The last leg of the triangle involves the reader and task considerations– teachers employing their professional judgment, experience, and knowledge.

  19. Reader and Task • Considers : • Motivation • Knowledge and experience • Purpose for reading • Complexity of task assigned regarding text • Complexity of questions asked regarding text

  20. Dr. Shanahan on CCSS and Complex Text

  21. Questions for a Using a Text What aspects of the text will likely pose the most challenge for my students?

  22. Resources • Mindy Hawley, ELA TOSA, PPT presentation • Websites • ODE - Text Complexity • TextProject - Using Multiple Sources of Information in Establishing Text Complexity • Lexile - Defining Text Complexity • Achieve the Core - Research Study of Text Analysis Tools

More Related