Text Complexity Toolkit
To help put the right book in each reader's hands, use the following tools to implement comprehensive text complexity analyses within your instructional plans.
- Qualitative Measures
Determine if the qualitative measures of assigned books meet your differentiation needs. - Quantitative Measures
Plan for each student's reading abilities to grow along a sequenced quantitative literacy continuum.
- Reader & Task Considerations
Reflect upon specific questions to match appropriate books with each student. - Data-Driven Analysis
Utilize data to reveal the ranges and differentiation for the titles in your curriculum.
Rubrics & Worksheets
How-to Videos
Completing a Text Complexity Rubric [coming soon]
Five Foundations of TeachingBooks' Text Complexity Support
Qualitative values
Utilizing an innovative rubric that both collects and reveals teachers' crowdsourced opinions about seven distinct elements of text for both informational and literary books.
Quantitative values
Assigning appropriate grade bands with a crosswalk that translates Lexile levels of specific books to a half-dozen other computer-generated measures, including Fountas & Pinnell and ATOS.
Reader and task considerations
Offering questions that guide teachers to keep these vital elements of literacy in mind.
Cultural Representation and Diversity: Optional Questions
These questions were adapted from the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance Curriculum and can be used to guide text selection and conversations.
Genre & curricular area measurements
Revealing the variety and differentiation of titles on any booklist — highlighting what is represented, and tools that grow and balance the list.