Lost Lake Elementary
“Pride of Clermont”
R U C2 Ready?
C2 Ready Reading Classroom
1. Students Interacting with the Text
2. Students Responding to Text
3. Students and Teachers Utilizing the “Right” Text
a. complex- Knowing WHY it is complex is just as
important as knowing IF it is complex
Use of Informational Text
Grade
3
4
5
FCAT 2.0
40%
50%
50%
Common Core
50%
50%
50%
**Find Informational Text on EBSCO.
Qualitative
•Structure
•Language Demands
•Knowledge Demands: Life Experiences/ Cultural /
Literary Knowledge (Literary)
•Knowledge Demands: Content/ Discipline
Knowledge (Informational Text)
•Levels of Meaning
b. Students should be interacting with complex texts
–⅓ of the time by October
–½ of the time by January
–⅔ of the time by April
* Interaction with complex texts should be throughout
the student’s day
c. Higher Lexiles- rigor increased 2-3 grade levels
5th grade StoryTown Text- 600L
5th grade Mini-Achieves- 910L
5th grade Science Textbook- 950L
5th grade Social Studies Text- 930L
Lexile® Analyzer
The Lexile Analyzer measures the complexity of the text by breaking
down the entire piece and studying its characteristics, such as sentence
length and word frequency, which represent the syntactic and semantic
challenges that the text presents to a reader.
EBSCOhost is a powerful online reference system
accessible via the Internet. It offers a variety of
proprietary full text databases and popular databases
from leading information providers. The comprehensive
databases range from general reference collections to
specially designed, subject-specific databases for public,
academic, medical, corporate and school libraries.
To access EBSCO–Lake County Home Page
–EBSCO
•lakecounty (Username)
•lakecounty (Password)
Here’s what you will find:
Searchasaurus - Elementary School
Science Reference Center
Student Research Center
- High School & Middle School
EBSCOhost Research Databases
http://lexile.com/analyzer/
ReadWorks.org
Common Core
Text complexity grade bands and associated Lexile ranges
Common Core
Band
2nd - 3rd
4th - 5th
Lexile
Measure
420-820
740-1010
Accelerated
Reader (GE)
2.75-5.14
4.97-7.03
http://www.readworks.org/books/passages?tid=All&tid_1=88&keyword
Over 500 new non-fiction passages:
 Aligned to the Common Core and State Standards
 Research-based question sets
 Lexiled
 For grades 3-6 (K-2 passages coming soon!)
2012