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Navigating Text Complexity. The Council of Chief State School Officers provides a wonderful set of resources for understanding how text complexity is defined in the Common Core State Standards and a set of tools for analyzing text and using texts effectively in the classroom. Check it out!

This brand new FREE service provides excellent news-style current event articles on a variety of topics that are written at multiple levels of text complexity. You can adjust the Lexile level of the text with a few clicks! Teachers can create student accounts and assign texts. Each text has a built in quiz linked to CCSS standards. This tool should be very valuable for any teacher trying to meet CCSS standards for informational texts while addressing differentiated reading needs among her students. Take a look and let me know what you think. Here's looking at you TPSD 6-12 teachers!

Readworks.org is a reputable source of excellent lesson plans and reading passages focused on teaching reading comprehension.  This fall, they are developing over 1000 new CCSS aligned and Lexile-leveled non-fiction and literary passages and question sets.  This free resource will be an excellent supplement for teachers.