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7 Actions that Teachers Can Take Right Now: Text Complexity

A separate standard for text complexity in The Common Core State Standards’ (CCSS) means that this feature of reading development is at the center of many conversations among educators. How this standard translates into classroom instruction is less clear. Even with current texts, teachers can take some important actions to support their students on the staircase of text complexity—right now! Also available as a printable PDF

TExT Products

TextProject creates reading programs based on our TExT model of text complexity.

Powered by TExT - Text Elements by Task Among the leading classroom reading programs based on TExT are QuickReads and ZipZoom.

SummerReads™SummerReads is TextProject's free summer reading program, based on the TExT model, that helps at-risk readers avoid the summer slump.

BeginningReads™For Fall 2011, TextProject launches our new BeginningReads program to support bringing children into reading by connecting their oral language knowledge with written words.

Talking Points for Kids is a prototype program that aims to increase meaningful discussion with students.

Teacher Support

TextProject helps teachers who want to improve their students' reading achievement.

E4: Exceptional Expressions for Everyday EventsReading activities promote fluency and vocabulary, including E4: Exceptional Expressions for Everyday Events (still free but newly revised, updated and polished) and QuickReads Word Pictures.

Professional development, including a series of upcoming webinars, provides teachers background on the elements of reading success.

Benchmark Texts: Stepping Up Complexity is a set of contemporary benchmark books that complements those already identified by Jeanne Chall and the CCSS.

Word lists, such as the popular WordZones™ for 5,586 Most Frequent Words, focus on the vocabulary needed for middle- and high-school success.

Research

TextProject's new Reading Research Report series documents innovations in reading education.

The latest report looks at the measurement of text complexity under the guidelines of the CCSS.

The TextProject Library contains a decade's worth of research articles, presentation slides and more from founder Elfrieda H. Hiebert and her colleagues.  Including the most recent addition, presentation slides on 7 Actions Teachers Can Take to Increase Students' Capacity with Complex Text.

What's New

1 May 2012

TextProject Teacher Primer poster session

PDF of Dr. Hiebert's poster at the 2012 IRA poster session on May 1, at 10am.

1 May 2012

Challenging texts and struggling readers

Presentation slides and handout for Dr. Hiebert's IRA Institute 18 presentation.

30 April 2012

Unique words require unique instruction: Teaching words in stories and informational books

Presentation slides and handout for Dr. Hiebert's IRA Institute 03 presentation.