Engaging Text
How To: Evaluating Passages & Creating Assessments
CCSS Measuring Text Complexity
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How to create text dependent questions
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Checkilist for evaluating passages & aligned assessments
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Text with Aligned assessment
Text & text sets with question sets.
Filter article/passage searches by: disciple, grade level, informational or literary, paired text, article-a-day sets and leveled reads.
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Articles with aligned questions/prompts/activites from the New York Times Learning Network
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Leveled text with aligned questions.
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Hundreds of texts & text sets with aligned questions. Sort by themes, genres, devices, standards and lexile ranges.
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Student Opinion, Picture Prompts & Current Event Cobversations.
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Leveled text plus critical thinking questions for student commenting.
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Articles of the Week with querstions.
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Dave Stuart's Articles of the Week with questions and writing prompts.
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Article of the week and archives
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Annotated research papers, text sets (collections), and aligned questions.
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Multimedia Text Sets
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Multimedia news stories that provide the facts with rich context from diverse viewpoints.
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An eclectic weekly selection of the best new essays, talks, podcasts, and more.
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Primary & secondary source text sets from the Library of Congress
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Authentic storytelling in multiple media formats
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Multimedia Playlists.
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Multimedia text sets.
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Podcasts
Most also include transcripts.
Searchable NPR podcasts with assessments. Create class code for students to listen.
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"..the stories of everyday people, who get to take the microphone and interview each other about their lives."
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"..weaving stories and science into sound and music-rich documentaries."
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"The economy, explained, with stories and surprises."
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Engaging listeners from all walks of life in a discussion of the core beliefs that guide their daily lives. (Archives 2005-09)
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Invisibilia (Latin for invisible things) is about the invisible forces that control human behavior – ideas, beliefs, assumptions and emotions."
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"..reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, the biases that shape our choices, and the triggers that direct the course of our relationships."
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Bringing "historical perspective to the events happening around us today."
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NYC teenagers create radio stories about themselves, their communities and their world.
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"..the effects of technology on our lives, in a quest for the smart choices that will help you think and live better."
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Real life scary stories
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Teen Diaries
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Musicians share how their songs were made
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Candid conversations about race and identity from KQED.
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Real stories of life online and the future of the web
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Special Interest Text Sources
Text sets by topic areas.
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excerpts from an eclectic range of noteworthy nonfiction books on a daily basis
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Music news stories
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Articles about technology's intersection with culture, business, science and design.
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Featured Stories.
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Fiction, essays, poetry, interviews, reviews.
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Articles about invention.
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Brief commentary on one line from a book, song, television show and more.
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Short provocations
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Current Popular Magazines
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The following magazines are available in digital form with your Pequannock Township Public Library card, through their subscription to RB Digital. |
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3 articles per week available via the website.
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Articles also freely available digitally on website linked here.
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4 articles per week available via the website.
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Special Interest Video Sources
National Film Board of Canada
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Includes lesson plans.
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Including Lesson Plan & Discussion Question. From the NYTimes.
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Great selection of free streaming movies.
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Animated Shorts
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Video Experience