Lenses on Literature Text Information Sheets

Every text in the Lenses on Literature curriculum has a Text Information Sheet.  This resource provides specific information to help the teacher plan for instruction.  

The Text Information Sheet has four categories.  These are a summary of the text, the instructional rationale for including the text in the unit, a qualitative analysis of the text, which examines text complexity as well as difficulty and ease factors, and content considerations.  

Text Information Sheets support effective instructional planning.  They provide background for the teacher about the rationale for the text’s inclusion in the unit, how it connects to the driving task and the factors, such as text complexity and difficulty and ease factors, to be considered as teachers think about their students’ strengths and challenges.   Many of the Text Information Sheets include scaffolding questions to support students as they read the text. 

Text Information Sheets can be accessed in two places.  

First Location
 

1. Go to the Teacher Resources Section in the Navigation Bar. 
2. Click on Text and Media Selections.  
   
   
    
3. Next, choose the unit you are working on and click to open.   All of the unit texts and their Text Information Sheets will appear on the right side of your screen. 
4. Click the card to open the Info Sheet.
   
   

second location
 

The second way to access the Text Information Sheets is through the text list in the Unit Overview.  

1. To the right of the name and author of each text, you will see a green downward arrow. 
2. Clicking on the arrow will open the information sheet for that text.  
   
   
   
   Text Information Sheets are PDFs and can be saved to your drive and/or printed for easy reference.