7 Actions that Teachers Can Take Right Now: Text Complexity » TextProject. Accelerate with Additional Resources. Appendix B of the CCSS Appendix B provides text samples to "exemplify the level of complexity and quality that the Standards require all students in a given grade band to engage with.
" The selections provided should serve as "useful guideposts" as educators choose texts for their classrooms. Defining Text Complexity. "Quite extraordinary...like one of those great waves off of Hawaii that comes along every 40 years.
" —Roy Romer * The Common Core State Standards Initiative places a strong emphasis on the role of text complexity in evaluating student readiness for college and careers. To follow are the Common Core Standards' three equally important components of text complexity, along with how Lexile measures can support them. IncreasingText Complexity. Kansas College and Career Ready ELA > Text Complexity. Shanahan on Literacy. Standard 10: Measuring Text Complexity. Text Complexity. Text Complexity: Simplifying Text Complexity And The Common Core.