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Decline in High School Textbook Reading Levels: Implications and Solutions

Discover how high school textbook reading levels have decreased while college and career texts have remained steady. Learn about the impact on vocabulary difficulty and sentence lengths, and explore strategies to address this issue in education.

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Decline in High School Textbook Reading Levels: Implications and Solutions

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  1. Did you know?

  2. High school textbook reading levels have declined over several decades.

  3. College and career text have remained steady or increased Vocabulary difficulty in newspapers have remained the same

  4. 8th grade textbooks equivalent to former 5th grade texts. 12th grade anthologies equivalent to former 7th grade texts. Vocabulary demands have declined

  5. Length of Sentences • Average length of sentences in K-8 books have declined from 20 words to 14 words.

  6. What can we do? • Buckle up and get ready to hear about how text complexity and Common Core State Standards can help educators prepare students for postsecondary education and the workforce.

  7. Too Dumb for Complex Texts? • Task: • At your tables, read the article and summarize the most important information using the “Get the Gist” strategy. • Answer who, what, when, where, why, how • Create a summarizing sentence. *Be prepared to share with the whole group in 10 minutes.

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