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
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