Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome

    • Welcome and Participant Workbook

    • Continuing Education Information

    • Completing Your Assessments

    • Pre-assessment
  • 2

    What Makes a Text Difficult?

    • Jigsaw Activity

    • Stop and Jot
  • 3

    Quantitative Factors

    • Quantitative Factors

    • Lexile Codes

    • Sample Texts

    • Sample Analysis - Elementary

    • Sample Analysis - Secondary

    • Reflection
  • 4

    Qualitative Factors

    • Qualitative Factors

    • Sample Analysis - Elementary

    • Sample Analysis - Secondary

    • Reflection
  • 5

    Reader and Task

    • Reader and Task

    • Article

    • Sample Analysis - Elementary

    • Sample Analysis - Secondary

    • Reflection
  • 6

    Connection to the TEKS

    • TEKS Scavenger Hunt

    • The Connection Between TEKS and Texts

    • Selecting TEKS

    • Connecting Learning Objectives

    • Connecting a Learning Objective to a Text

    • Activity: Matching Learning Objectives to Texts
  • 7

    Your Turn

    • Analyzing a Text
  • 8

    Closing

    • Congratulations!

    • Post-test

    • Course Feedback

    • Reference List