We crunched the numbers (well, sort of), and here’s what your answers say about where your school is and where you might go next.
YOUR SCHOOL is ready for…
Supporting Rich, Complex Reading
🎉 Congratulations! Your school is ready to stretch readers into more complex texts and reimagine what science-aligned comprehension instruction looks like.
Too often, in the name of support, we lower reading levels. But this can leave students stuck without the chance to access grade-level texts. You know there’s a better way, a more equitable way: How can we help all students succeed in reading and access complex texts with confidence and purpose?
Now’s the time to explore high-impact questions with your staff:
What does it look like to scaffold up to, rather than avoid, complex texts?
Which small group routines and materials truly support deep comprehension?
Why are text sets critical fuel for strong units, and how do we use them to boost comprehension and academic language?
It’s time to move beyond leveled books and isolated strategies and align on what comprehension really means, and how we design instruction to support it.
This is a paradigm-shifting moment for many schools. You’re poised to reshape (appropriately!) the way your school teaches reading. With the right planning and tools, every student can rise to the challenge.
Let’s get started.
Start here.
Course Taster: But what about older kids?! Research and Application of SOR for G3 and Beyond
Course Taster: Rethinking Text Complexity
Explore selected sessions from these two courses to examine how your school defines “rigor” in reading.
Next…
Use the Vocabulary Mapping Framework to design supports before and during reading. As a team, select 1–2 upcoming texts and collaboratively plan for key word introduction and discussion routines that support comprehension and academic language.
Then…
Facilitate a team protocol to analyze one complex text students are expected to read. Ask:
What makes this text complex?
What prior knowledge or language demands might create barriers?
What scaffolds could make this text more accessible without reducing the rigor?
What might be next?
Conduct a labsite to model vocabulary routines in action.
Co-create or review a text set aligned to unit goals and academic language demands.
Like what you’ve unlocked?
These tasters are just the beginning.
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