What Text will you choose?
What "chunks" of text are WORTHY of reading closely and doing extensive writing about?
Start with your curriculum materials. Is there are part of a text that you know will be difficult for students? Or, is there a piece of text that really exemplifies one of the standards?
Below you'll find some links to sites that specialize in great texts!
Start with your curriculum materials. Is there are part of a text that you know will be difficult for students? Or, is there a piece of text that really exemplifies one of the standards?
Below you'll find some links to sites that specialize in great texts!
New York Times "Text to Text" Lessons
Matches Times content with excerpts from often-taught literary, cultural, historical or scientific material
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/text-to-text/
Kelly Gallagher - Article of the Week (AoW)
Amazing list of high-interest, relevant articles to be used in all content areas. Already set up for close read!!
"If my students are to become literate, they must broaden their reading experiences into real-world text."
2013-14 School Year: http://kellygallagher.org/resources/articles.html
Archives: http://kellygallagher.org/resources/articles_archive.html
Readworks.org
Reading passages by lexile and skill focus for every content. (Registration required)
http://www.readworks.org/books/passages
Achieve the Core
Featured lesson plans for close reading using exemplar texts for various grades/contents
Achievethecore.org
Newsela
https://newsela.com/
Matches Times content with excerpts from often-taught literary, cultural, historical or scientific material
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/text-to-text/
Kelly Gallagher - Article of the Week (AoW)
Amazing list of high-interest, relevant articles to be used in all content areas. Already set up for close read!!
"If my students are to become literate, they must broaden their reading experiences into real-world text."
2013-14 School Year: http://kellygallagher.org/resources/articles.html
Archives: http://kellygallagher.org/resources/articles_archive.html
Readworks.org
Reading passages by lexile and skill focus for every content. (Registration required)
http://www.readworks.org/books/passages
Achieve the Core
Featured lesson plans for close reading using exemplar texts for various grades/contents
Achievethecore.org
Newsela
https://newsela.com/