What Makes This Read-Aloud Complex? Quantitative Measure Go to and enter the title of your read-aloud in the Quick Book Search in the upper right of home page. Most texts will have a Lexile measure in this database. Qualitative Features Consider the four dimensions of text complexity below. For each dimension*, note specific examples from the text that make it more or less complex. Reader and Task Considerations What will challenge my students most in this text? What supports can I provide? The illustrations which are so similar to story illustrations will create a difficult comparison between facts and fantasy for young students. As teachers, we need to show children how the illustrations on the pages, with diagrams or captions, enhance the factual text and the text to picture match is a characteristic of informational text. Teaching the features of informational text will also scaffold this learning. Using the Elmo, or document camera, teachers could zoom in to specific portions of a page in order to draw students’ attention to the features or facts that teacher is reading. The vocabulary in this book will make it difficult for kindergarten students to understand the connections and the information in the
What Makes This Read-Aloud Complex? Quantitative Measure Go to and enter the title of your read-aloud in the Quick Book Search in the upper right of home page. Most texts will have a Lexile measure in this database. Qualitative Features Consider the four dimensions of text complexity below. For each dimension*, note specific examples from the text that make it more or less complex. Reader and Task Considerations What will challenge my students most in this text? What supports can I provide? The illustrations which are so similar to story illustrations will create a difficult comparison between facts and fantasy for young students. As teachers, we need to show children how the illustrations on the pages, with diagrams or captions, enhance the factual text and the text to picture match is a characteristic of informational text. Teaching the features of informational text will also scaffold this learning. Using the Elmo, or document camera, teachers could zoom in to specific portions of a page in order to draw students’ attention to the features or facts that teacher is reading. The vocabulary in this book will make it difficult for kindergarten students to understand the connections and the information in the