1. Successful Students Superior StandardsSupportive School Climate Day 3

2. Successful Students Superior StandardsSupportive School Climate REFLECT AND RESPOND Text Complexity Part 4

3. Successful Students Superior StandardsSupportive School Climate Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction Reading, writing and speaking grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational Regular practice with complex text and its academic language ELA/Literacy Instructional Shifts

4. Successful Students Superior StandardsSupportive School Climate Access to complex texts is crucial to college and career readiness. Big Idea:

5. Successful Students Superior StandardsSupportive School Climate Essential Questions How does understanding text complexity support implementation of the instructional shifts? How do the Common Core State Standards define text complexity? What does “text complexity band” mean in the CCSS? How can we use three factors for “measuring” text complexity? How do we choose texts and what existing resources can we access? Which SAUSD strategies support planning and instruction with complex texts for all students including English learners?

6. Successful Students Superior StandardsSupportive School Climate Text Complexity Day 1 (Staff Meeting) – Activity 1 & Begin Activity 2 Day 2 (Staff Meeting) – Continue Activity 2 & Activity 3 Day 3 (Staff Meeting) – Activity 4 & Strategies Day 4 (Staff Meeting) – Activity 5 Day 5 (Grade Level Collaboration Meeting) – Activity 6

7. Successful Students Superior StandardsSupportive School Climate Text Complexity and the Common Core State Standards Please read… – 7 Actions that Teachers Can Take Right Now: Text Complexity (Hiebert, 2012) Highlight 2 key sentences or phrases from the text. Record them on an index card. Be prepared to share using the structure: “Save the Last Word for Me”.

8. Successful Students Superior StandardsSupportive School Climate Save the Last Word for Me 1.Choose a speaker to begin. 2.The speaker reads one of the excerpts recorded on the index card. 3.In turn, each group member responds to the excerpt. Then, the first speaker makes a final comment. * Note: This is not a dialogue. Do not engage in cross talk. 4.A new speaker continues the process each member has shared a card.

9. Successful Students Superior StandardsSupportive School Climate Reflection on Article Which actions would you implement and why? Which SAUSD strategies support the 7 Actions Hiebert recommends?