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Text Sets National Initiative

(Student Achievement Partners)

Should BE School Library Centered!

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Text Sets - Defined

“A text set is a collection of related texts organized around a topic or line of inquiry.”

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The Process - Rigorous • Collection – curated, not a Dewey rack

• Related – joined by content not level*

• Organized – carefully crafted build

• Inquiry – each item is step to next

* Levels are present, but as an ascent, not a plateau

* Levels are present, but as an ascent, not a plateau

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Text Sets – Why?• Building Knowledge through content-rich

nonfiction • Reading, writing, and speaking grounded in

evidence from text, both literary and informational

• Regular practice with complex text and its academic language

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Close Reading Volume of Reading

Fewer pages More pages

Grade-level complex text

Text at different levels of complexity

All students same text

Student or teacher choice of text

Teaches students to attend to text and to words

Rapidly builds knowledge & vocab

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Close Reading Volume of Reading

Heavy support Light support

Solely instructional Guided or Independent

Exposes students to higher-level content

Builds knowledge of words, and the world

Gives all students access

Builds love of reading

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Text Set ExampleTopic

Sugar Changed the World

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Search GO: Sugar History

Article – Sugar (Lexile 1040) Provides definition and background knowledge with basic history(from New Book of Knowledge in GO)

Web Site – Science of Candy: What is Sugar? (Lexile 1110)

Questions and answers about sucrose (sugar). Part of an educational resource on cooking produced by the Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco

http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/candy/sugar.html

(Web links from the Sugar article used to find this web site)

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Book – Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science

(Lexile 1130)

By Marc Aronson and Marina BudhosSelected as a Central Text New York State Grade 9 Module 4https://www.engageny.org/resource/grade-9-ela-module-4

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Web Sitehttp://sugarchangedtheworld.com/(Lexile 1410)Provides background and opportunities for activities. “Share Your Sugar Story”

Opportunities to make connections with the history and production of sugarcane

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Text Set Example - RecapTopic

Sugar Changed the WorldFour Resources to build interest and reading

volume with increased Lexile levelsNEXT Step for this Text Set?

It still needs timeline of activities and collection of materials to complete these activities with

the resources identified

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Your Take Away • Think – Farm to Table • Library to Classroom• Use LOCALLY SOURCED Resources• What’s in YOUR Library?