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Reading Demand and the Common Core Standards -- Implications. Otis Fulton Senior Vice President, MetaMetrics ofulton@Lexile.com. Postsecondary Options. Williamson, G. L. (2004). Student readiness for postsecondary options. MetaMetrics, Inc.
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Reading Demand and the Common Core Standards -- Implications Otis Fulton Senior Vice President, MetaMetrics ofulton@Lexile.com
Postsecondary Options Williamson, G. L. (2004). Student readiness for postsecondary options. MetaMetrics, Inc.
Change in Text Complexity in Textbooks over the Last Century
How well do you have to read for college and careers? Williamson, G. L. (2008). A Text Readability Continuum for Postsecondary Readiness. Journal of Advanced Academics, 19(4), 602-632.
The Standards (starting formally in grade 2) define what proportion of the texts students read each year should come from a particular text complexity grade band (2–3, 4–5, 6–8, 9–10, or 11–12). Students must also show a steadily increasing ability to discern more from and make fuller use of text, including making an increasing number of connections among ideas and between texts, considering a wider range of textual evidence, and becoming more sensitive to inconsistencies, ambiguities, and poor reasoning in texts. Common Core Appendix A
Percentage distribution of literary and informational passages National Assessment Governing Board. Reading Framework for the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress. Washington, D.C.: American Institutes for Research, 2007.