Online Text

I just spent a week with a group of hardworking Asheboro City Schools teachers who helped to find free, online text resources for English Language Arts teachers.  In the fall, we will roll out a site with links to fiction and nonfiction exemplar texts, as well as readings represented in local and published unit plans.  A good portion of our work was around evaluating text complexity, as well.  Here is a great video that explains the three considerations in evaluating text complexity:  quantitative measures, qualitative measures, and reader & task.


Introduction to Text Complexity from NYC DOE Promising Pract on Vimeo.

I also have a LiveBinder with links to sites that provided easy access to many of our text selections:

Free Online Text

Thanks to Meredith Wolfe (NAMS), Julia Dawson (SAMS), Brenda Kern (AHS), and Kathy Saunders (AHS) for all their work!

~Chandra