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Getting ThereFrom Here

Elizabeth BassfordDirector of Literacy

Pearson

Why do we need them? Why now?

…End of the year, grade-by-grade descriptions of what students should know and be able to do

(performances) in reading, writing,

speaking and listening, and language competency.

What are they?

What is the real goal?

Make comprehension a verb.

What is the big game-changer?

A significant instructional shift that is task-based, requiring rigorous attention to text

through close

reading

of deliberately increasing complexity.

cc101

K–1

2–3

4–5

6–8

9–10

11‐CCR

Text Complexity

Grade Band in the

CCSS

Old Lexile Ranges

N/A

450–725

645–845

860–1010

960–1115

1070–1220

Lexile Ranges

Aligned to College and 

Career Readiness 

Expectations

N/A

450–790

770–980

955–1155

1080–1305

1215–1355

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What’s the big deal?

Equity.

What We

Read Influences What We

Learn

When some students have access to complex text and others do not, the reading gap

(that

often causes teachers to assign less complex text to low-performing students) contributes to a knowledge gap.

(Stanovich, 2000; Neuman, 2006).

• read substantially fewer in-context words,

• are asked fewer critical thinking questions,

• have fewer opportunities for discussion,

• have fewer opportunities to write.

(Allington, 1983; Hiebert, 1983)

True, and--Text difficulty resides in

◦

the linguistic characteristics of the text

◦

the characteristics of the reader

◦

the actions of the teacher.

(Quantitative/Qualitative)

Reading complex text supports:

• Acquisition of sophisticated vocabulary, concepts, and linguisticstructures, and

• Development of critical thinking abilities,

• Vocabulary, concepts, linguistic structures,and general knowledge acquired throughreading complex text “anchors”

further

reading and learning.

Deliberate Use of Text Types

Complex texts support the acquisitionand use of sophisticated:

VocabularyConceptsLinguistic structuresRhetorical structuresGeneral Knowledge

Achieve Balance…

Read Like a Detective! Write Like a Reporter!

Ask Questions

Gather Evidence

Make Your Case

Prove It!

Love what you teach.

…and speaking of meaning…

The Pleasant Life

The Good Life(eudaemonia)

The Meaningful Life

…the larger the thing that you can credibly attach yourself to, while using your highest strengths, the more meaning you get out of life.

The first major conduit for humanitarianism was the printing press.

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declinedby Steven Pinker, 2011

Let the beauty you love be what you do.

There are one hundred ways to kneel

and kiss the ground.

-Rumi

Elizabeth Bassford

917-859-7513

Elizabeth.bassford@Pearson.com

{PC}Publisher’s Criteria

correlation revolution

BPC APC