Use this Text Complexity Tool from The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades K-2 to determine the complexity of texts and choose the best texts for your class at the right time to advance achievement.
Use this handy Text Complexity Tool from The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 6-8, to help you rate the text complexity of books, articles, or other texts.
In this lesson from Vocabulary Is Comprehension, students practice a strategy that asks them to look at an entire word and then use their knowledge of word parts to decode the word.
Consider this list from The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 3-5, when searching for rich texts to explore with your students.
From the pages of The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 9-12, comes this list of rich reading examples for narrative and informational text plus links to online lists with dozens of more resources.
Preview videos on text complexity and collaborative reading featured in Fisher & Frey's Close & Critical Reading PD Resource Center. (K-12)
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This lesson helps your students evaluate their performance by encouraging them to take time to stop and evaluate what may have caused the error and identify what learning is needed to close the gap.
Use this planning template from Rigorous Reading to organize your purpose & modeling.
In this excerpt from Simply Stations: Listening and Speaking, author Debbie Diller guides teachers on how to transition from whole-group instruction to stations while addressing the Listening & Speaking standard “The student will listen activity & ask questions.” Practical examples and ideas for partner practice at stations are provided for primary grades (K-2) and intermediate grades (3-4).
In this excerpt from Planning Powerful Instruction, Grades 2-5, the authors introduce and explain the EMPOWER framework that will empower your units and lessons for transformational teaching and learning.
In this excerpt, author Debbie Diller discusses the importance of partner stations and why they should be included in classrooms; as well as how to implement and set up the station.
In this excerpt, author Molly Ness explains the benefits to literacy-rich activities and includes some activities to try out with students.