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E4: Exceptional Expressions for Everyday Events

New edition! Revised, updated and polished! E4 is a series of 32 flexible vocabulary development lessons each focusing on an everyday concept and brainstorming other words that describe the concept.

QuickReads: Word Pictures™

Designed to supplement QuickReads print edition, QuickReads: Word Pictures helps English Language Learners connect key words to concepts they may already know.

Benchmark Texts: Stepping Up Complexity

Adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) represents the first time that explicit complexity levels have been set for grade-level texts. The Standards give little guidance for how to support the many students who struggle to read complex texts. TextProject is responding to this need with research-based resources to guide educators in identifying appropriate texts for struggling readers.

The Text Complexity Multi-Index

The Text Complexity Multi-Index (TCMI) is a process for matching texts with students. The process attends to all three dimensions that were recommended by the Common Core State Standards (CCSS Initiative, 2011) for selecting texts: (a) quantitative, (b) qualitative, and (c) reader-text match. Qualitative measures are of two types: comparison with a set of benchmark texts and a scheme for analyzing core traits of texts. The two types of qualitative measures mean that the TCMI process has four steps.

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Word Lists

For years, the most popular items at the TextProject site have included these essential resources that help teachers focus on the specific vocabulary needed for academic success, in the early grades and beyond.