Kansas Common Core ELA > Text Complexity

General Text Complexity Resources

Title	Size
Resources for Accessing Quantitative Measures of Text	360.74 KB	Download
Range-Complexity Comparison	213.09 KB	Download
Quantitative Measures Worksheet - Activity #3	15.10 KB	Download
Text Complexity Recommendations by Grades	Unknown	Download
Text Complexity Placemat for Final Recommendation	57.99 KB	Download
Text Complexity Bookmark	90.00 KB	Download
Literary Text - Qualitative Measures Rubric	145.94 KB	Download
Informational Text - Qualitative Measures Rubric	121.00 KB	Download
A Beginner's Guide to Text Complexity	4.48 MB	Download
Quantitative Measures Ranges for Text Complexity Grade Bands	203.71 KB	Download
One page overview of text complexity	42.50 KB	Download
Measures of Text Difficulty	2.08 MB	Download

Activities

	Title	Size
	Questions for Professional Reflection on Reader and Task Considerations	63.00 KB	Download

PowerPoints and Videos

Title	Size
Text Complexity and the CCSS Grades K-2.pptx	4.41 MB	Download
Text Complexity and the CCSS Grades K-5	4.29 MB	Download
Text Complexity webinar for Striving Readers	1.25 MB	Download
Text Complexity and the CCSS Grades 6-12	4.16 MB	Download
Summer Institute for School Librarians Powerpoint Adobe	3.47 MB	Download
Summer Institute for School Librarians Powerpoint pdf	2.63 MB	Download
Text Complexity	4.62 MB	Download

Sample Texts

Title	Size
Ripe Figs One Page Passage	24.50 KB	Download
The Gettysburg Address One Page Passage	23.50 KB	Download
Busy Bees - Text Complexity Information	18.34 KB	Download
Reef Rainbow - Text Complexity Information	18.99 KB	Download

K- Grade 1 Recommendations

Title

Size

Grades 2-3 Recommendations

Grades 4-5 Recommendations

Title	Size
Example Final Recommendation - How to Steal a Dog	69.00 KB	Download
How to Steal a Dog	53.50 KB	Download
Coral Reefs	78.50 KB	Download
A Prairie Peter Pan	81.46 KB	Download
A Tale Dark and Grimm	60.02 KB	Download

Grades 6-8 Recommendations

Title	Size
Extraordinary Mark Twain	58.12 KB	Download
Example Recommendation - The Hunger Games	263.46 KB	Download
The Hunger Games	53.50 KB	Download
Moon Over Manifest	52.00 KB	Download
Example Final Recommendation - Zora and Me	56.00 KB	Download
Diamond Willow	53.00 KB	Download
Candy Bomber	81.04 KB	Download
Example Final Recommendation - Moon Over the Manifest	277.93 KB	Download
Example Final Recommendation - Diamond Willow	237.54 KB	Download

Grades 9-10 Recommendations

Title	Size
To Kill a Mockingbird	80.83 KB	Download
Exmaple Final Recommendation - Moon Over Manifest	277.93 KB	Download
Why We Broke Up	60.53 KB	Download
Where Things Come Back	80.15 KB	Download
Example Final Recommendation - A Separate Peace	268.29 KB	Download
A Separate Peace	54.00 KB	Download
Example Recommendation - The Hunger Games	263.46 KB	Download
Example Final Recommendation - To Kill a Mockingbird	118.59 KB	Download

Grades 11-12 Recommendations

	Title	Size
	Example Final Recommendation - The Hunger Games	263.46 KB	Download

Contact Information

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