These digital resources and tools for creating, collaborating, researching, and sharing can be found in the Common Core Curriculum Maps. This is not intended to be a comprehensive list, as the technologies are constantly evolving. Consider it a beginning!
The Lexile® measure of text is determined using the Lexile Analyzer®, a software program that evaluates the reading demand—or readability—of books, articles and other materials. 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. The outcome is the text complexity, expressed as a Lexile measure, along with information on the word count, mean sentence length and mean log frequency.
Search or browse KQED (Northern California's PBS station) Education's library of lesson plans, educator guides and student activities inspired by programming from KQED television, radio and interactive.
Free resources especially useful
for implementation this year
Professional Development Resources
Introducing Our Curriculum Training! Get trained on the K-12 Digital Literacy and Citizenship curriculum on your own time with our all-new tutorial! Select your grade level and topic area to customize the training to your needs. You'll walk away confident and inspired to implement the curriculum in your school. Check out the intro video to learn more about the training.
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