Rather than focusing exclusively on literacy skills, the Common
Core State Standards set expectations for the complexity of
texts students need to be able to read to be ready for college
and careers. To choose texts that are on grade level for the
CCSS use three steps: - Use quantitative measures to assign a
text to a grade band. - Use qualitative measures to locate a
text within a specific grade band. - Use professional judgment
to decide how suited a text is for a specific instructional
purpose with a particular set of students. This collection
includes tools to help with each step and research to support
teachers' understanding of text complexity.