Research Guides: EDC 723: Steam Methods in Early Childhood: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Art -Prof. Kara Morton: Complex text

Mass Literacy Guide

Recommendation 1 from the IES Practice Guide "Improving Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade": Teach students how to use reading comprehension strategies (Research and information)
Massachusetts English Language Art Curriculum Suggested books and authors pg, 164 onwards
Text complexity. Level of difficulty of reading and comprehending a given text, combined with consideration of reader and task variables; in these standards, evaluated using three-part criteria that pairs qualitative and Massachusetts Curriculum Framework for English Language Arts (pg. 79 -84) and Literacy 185 quantitative measures with reader-task considerations. See Measuring Text Complexity and Appendix A of the Common Core State Standards for a larger discussion of text complexity.
Text Project: Text Model

Reading levels

Reading Level Chart from Perma-Bound

Reading Level Systems

ATOS Readability Scores
The ATOS readability formula guides students to appropriate-level books...ATOS takes into account the most important predictors of text complexity—average sentence length, average word length, and word difficulty level. The results are provided in a grade-level scale that is easy to use and understand.
Degrees of Reading Power
The Degrees of Reading Power test does not assign text complexity levels for books, rather it is a test for students to help match them to an appropriate text complexity level for reading.
Lexile Framework
The Lexile® Framework for Reading is a scientific approach to measuring both reading ability and the text complexity of reading materials on the same developmental scale.

Standards Maps

Standards Map English Language Arts and Literacy > Grade PK > Reading Literature
English Language Arts and Literacy | Grade : PK
Strand - Reading Literature
Cluster - Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
[RL.PK.10] - Listen actively as an individual and as a member of a group to a variety of age-appropriate literature read aloud.
Standards Map English Language Arts and Literacy > Grade PK > Reading Informational Text
English Language Arts and Literacy | Grade : PK
Strand - Reading Informational Text
Cluster - Key Ideas and Details
[RI.PK.1] - With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about an informational text read aloud.

Bloom 's Level Prompts

Achieve the Core

Massachusetts Library System Guide

Text Complexity and Informational Text

Quick Reference Guide: Text Complexity and the Growth of Reading Comprehension
From the MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Next Generation Science Standards

MA Curriculum Frameworks

Common Core Knowledge Read Alouds

Scholastic BookFlix This link opens in a new window
All the fiction/nonfiction pairs in BookFlix are categorized according to nine themes: Animals and Nature; Earth and Sky; Family and Community; People and Places; Music and Rhyme; ABC's and 1, 2, 3's; Adventure; Imagination; and Celebrations. From the Home page, click on one of the nine themes to browse the pairs in each category. Pairs are listed in alphabetical order by story title.
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Comprehension - Questions

Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy

Remembering	Recalling information (facts)	recognizing, listing, identifying, retrieving, naming, finding
Understanding	Explaining ideas or concepts (in your own words)	interpreting, summarizing, paraphrasing, describing, explaining
Applying	Using information in another familiar situation (use, do it)	implementing, carrying out, executing
Analyzing	Breaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships (compare/contrast)	comparing, organizing, deconstructing, distinguishing, arranging
Evaluating	Justifying a decision or course of action (fair/unfair, right/wrong, ranking)	debating, hypothesizing, critiquing, appraising, judging
Creating	Generating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things (what if?)	designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing

Sample question terms

Remembering	Understanding	Applying	Analyzing	Evaluating	Creating
Find	Describe	Apply	Categorize	Conclude	Assemble
Give an example	Discuss	Demonstrate	Compare	Debate	Construct
Identify	Explain	Draw	Contrast	Hypothesize	Create
Label	Restate in your own words	Make	Examine	Justify	Imagine
List	Retell	Practice	Group	Rate	Invent
Name	Summarize	Use	Organize	Validate	Make

Sample question prompts

Bloom’s Level	Prompts
Remembering	Where is… What did… Who was… When did… How many… Locate it in the story… Point to the…
Understanding	Tell me in your own words… What does it mean… Give me an example of… Describe what… What is the main idea of…
Applying	What would happen to you if… How would you solve the problem… If you were there, would you… Find information about…
Analyzing	What other ways could… What things are similar/different? What kind of person is… What things could not have happened in real life? What caused ___ to act the way she/he did?
Evaluating	Rank the events in order of importance. Which character would you most like to meet? Why? Select the best … why is it the best? Was _____ good or bad? Why? Would you recommend this book? Why or why not?
Creating	What if… What would it be like if… What would have happened if… Tell/write a different ending… Use your imagination to draw a picture of… Pretend you are a… Design a…

Sedita, J. (2023, December 5). Question generation: A key comprehension strategy. Reading Rockets. https://www.readingrockets.org/topics/comprehension/articles/question-generation-key-comprehension-strategy