High-Quality Instructional Materials for Each Child

High-quality instructional materials matter. Every Ohio student deserves the opportunity to learn from high-quality, standards-aligned instructional materials to become a resilient, lifelong learner who contributes to society. This group has been created for educators to reflect and learn more about identifying and adopting HQIM in teaching and learning. To learn more about high-quality instructional materials, take the asynchronous classes found in the High-Quality Instructional Materials for Each Child Learning Pathway https://infohio.org/campus/learning-pathways/high-quality-instructional-materials-for-each-child-learning-pathway. These include High-Quality Instructional Materials to Supplement Your Curriculum, Quality, Grade-Level Text from INFOhio, EdReports, ISearch for Teachers, Open Space Basics, and Open Space Collaboration and Creation.

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Complex Text Check

by INFOhio Staff 1 year, 4 months ago

Using the text you described in Text I Use in Instruction lesson of the Quality, Grade-Level Text from INFOhio, answer the following question in the High-Quality Instructional Materials for Each Child Open Space group.

What is the quantitative level of this text? If needed, try the Lexile Text Analyzer.
Using the Achieve the Core rubrics linked above, identify the qualitative complexity of the text.
Consider the reader and the task for this text. What information can you use to inform the decision to use this text?

Ryan Winkleman 10 months, 4 weeks ago

Overall the text utilized is considered slightly complex. All students accessing this text are diagnosed with Autism and are well-below grade level across all academic content areas. The text includes a lot of visual supports and ogranization to help make the text/task as explicit as possible. This considered, I think it's important to maintain high expectations in regards to the vocabulary and background knowledge involved with each news article. Supplemental activies can help support this.