Qualitative Text Complexity Measures

Inform instructional decisions and guide readers' advisory with qualitative measures about the books in your curriculum or collection.

Analyze and/or determine if the qualitative measures meet your differentiation needs with data from our interactive, crowdsourced rubric.

Complete a qualitative measures rubric online:

  1. Search for a book title using the search box on the top of any screen.
  2. Once on the webpage for that title, click on
    Submit Text Complexity
    THEN...
  3. Complete the rubric, and at the end, consider your results with crowdsourced averages. You will receive a certificate acknowledging your text complexity review via email.

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Note: You can complete these qualitative measure rubrics online with any device, or work on them offline with the Text Complexity Rubric & Worksheet PDFs: Informational and Literary.


Implementation Strategy
These qualitative rubrics can be used with your students as a formative assessment to determine their understanding of literary characteristics.