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The Common Core State Standards: Supporting Districts and Teachers with Text Complexity

WebEx Recording: The Common Core State Standards: Supporting Districts and Teachers with Text Complexity

Recording date: Thursday, January 26, 2012 2:00 pm

Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes

Description: To provide states with additional Common Core State Standards implementation support, the Council of Chief State School Officers hosted a one-hour webinar on Thursday, January 26th at 2 p.m. EST to share tools and resources to support teachers and districts on text complexity, which is the linchpin of the ELA standards. The webinar featured Sue Pimentel, a member of the Common Core State Standards English language arts writing committee, as well as representatives from the Kansas and Louisiana Departments of Education.

Webinar Resources

• Presentation
• Informational Text Qualitative Rubric
• Literary Text Qualitative Rubric
• Reader and Task Considerations
• Text Complexity - Text Title Chart
• Measures of Text Complexity by Jessica Nelson, Charles Perfetti, David Liben, and Meredith Liben

Links:

• ATOS
• Lexile
• Kansas ELA and Literacy Resources for the Common Core

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