TeachFest Connecticut: Summer Academy - ELA

The materials below will guide you through the steps and provide supporting resources for completing a text complexity and vocabulary analysis.

Templates

• Defending your text choice
• Text complexity and vocabulary analysis
• Annotated text complexity and vocabulary analysis template

Text Complexity and Vocabulary Analysis Examples

• Grades K-2 example text complexity and vocabulary analysis
• Grades 3-5 example text complexity and vocabulary analysis
• Grades 6-8 example text complexity and vocabulary analysis template
• High School example text complexity and vocabulary analysis

Guidebook

• ELA TeachFest Guidebook

Sources for Texts

Kindergarten - 5th Grade

• National Geographic for Kids
• Time for Kids
• Ranger Rick
• ReadWorks
• Newsela
• Cricket Magazine
• Washington Post for Kids
• Project Gutenberg (public domain stories and poems, e.g., fairytales)
• America's Library (from the Library of Congress)
• Federal agency websites for kids (e.g., NASA Kids' Club, NOAA Education Resources)

Grades 6-12

• Project Gutenberg (public domain stories and poems)
• Smithsonian Magazine
• Newsela
• National Geographic
• National Archives
• Washington Post for Kids
• Federal agency websites for kids (e.g., NASA Kids' Club, NOAA Education Resources)

Quick References

• Common Core State Standards for ELA
• Common Core State Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects
• Next Generation Science Standards Appendix M ("Connections to the CCSS for Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects")
• National Research Council’s "Framework for K-12 Science Education"
• Connecticut Dream Team 2014 ELA & Content Area Literacy Close Reading Plans