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Text Complexity

Reader and Task Considerations

TextComplexityReader and Task Considerations
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Cognitive Capabilities

Necessary attention? Remembering / Connection Skills? Critical / Analytical Thinking Skills?

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Reading Skills

Inferencing Skills? Visualization Skills? Questioning Skills? Comprehension Strategies?

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Motivation & Engagement with Task & Text

Understands the purpose? Interested in the content? Interested / Engaged with Style of writing? Maintain motivation/engagement?

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Prior Knowledge and Experience

Adequate prior knowledge / experience of this topic / genre / vocabulary? Explicit Connections?

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Content & Theme Concerns

Potentially concerning elements of content or theme? Reader mature enough?

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Complexity of Associated Tasks

Complexity of any Before-, During-, or After- Reading tasks? Complexity of questions asked / discussed? (i.e. Strategies for support)

adapted from Common Core State Standards initiative. commoncore.org

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