Common Core Curator shares ideas for curating informational text articles by creating text sets, paired readings, and more by using online databases, print and ebooks, and free access online resources.

1. Common Core Curator
Linda Dougherty
@ljdougherty
Blog & Resources: lindajdougherty.com
MASL - Missouri Association of School
Librarians
Fall Forum 2013

2. AASL Conference #AASL14

3. Connect
• Connect Common Core
Standards with local, state, and
national standards
• Connect standards with
information literacy skills.
• Study the CCSS literally!

4. Connect
• Connect AASL Cross Walk of the Common
Core Standards
• Use the College & Career Readiness Anchor
Standards as a beginning point.

5. Connect Informational Text
Students must be able to read complex
informational texts in these fields with
independence and confidence because the
vast majority of reading in college and
workforce training programs will be
sophisticated nonfiction.
"English Language Arts Standards -Anchor Standards -College and Career Readiness Anchor
Standards for Reading." Common Core State Standards Initiative. Web. 12 Aug. 2012.

6. Matrix for School Librarians
http://bit.ly/WmrzBx http://bit.ly/15cB4I9

7. What is
a Text
Set?

8. Bundles!
Book Bundles. Digital image. ALSC Blog. N.p., n.d. Web. 2 Nov. 2013.

9. Features of Strong Text Sets
Strong text sets
Weak text sets
Build student knowledge about a topic,
meaningful connection to the anchor
text
Texts are not related or connected across
sets or they are only superficially
connected.
Texts are authentic, rich, and worthy of
study.
Only commissioned texts or textbook
passages.
Range of text types (literary and
informational) and formats
Focused exclusively on one genre or
format (unless the set is a genre study)
Text complexity levels support student
achievement of the grade-level
complexity demands of the CCSS.
Text complexity levels are erratic and do
not support the staircase of text
complexity in the CCSS
"Guide to Creating Text Sets for Grades 2 - 12." The Council of Chief State School Officers. The Council of
Chief State School Officers, n.d. Web. 01 Nov. 2013. <http://www.ccsso.org/Documents>

10. Curating & Communicating
Informational Text

11. Paired Texts – Fiction & Nonfiction
http://readingandwritingproject.com/

12. Paired Texts on Shared Topics
http://www.amazon.com/DK-ReadersCathy-East-Dubowski/dp/0756656079
http://www.seymoursimon.com/
index.php/books/detail/sharks/

13. Zoobooks. Jul/Aug2013, Vol. 30
Issue 8, p2-3. 2p. Reading Level
(Lexile): 910.
Storyworks. Jan2013, Vol. 20
Issue 4, p24-27. 4p

14. Shark Video
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/animals/fishanimals/sharks-and-rays/deadliest-shark-seals/

15. http://naomibates.blogspot.com/
https://magic.piktochart.com/output/3922de45-655d-48dc-844e1ba2ba5da348#.URme2PI3tiw

16. Identify the Anchor Text

17. Destiny Quest
• Search by Lexile levels
• Search for ebooks by content and Lexile level –
especially books that have simultaneous
access.
• Make Resource Lists

18. Destiny Quest Searches

19. What to include?
Children’s
Literature
Periodicals
Text Set
Primary
Sources
Digital

20. What to include?
Fiction of all types,
graphic novels,
literature, poetry,
biographies, nonfiction
Newspapers, magazines,
magazines for children
& teens, news show
transcripts
Text Set
Documents, letters,
maps, photographs,
diaries, historic homes,
battlefield records,
newspapers
Songs, Videos, podcasts,
photographs, art,
interviews, online
government records

21. Search for Ideas for Text Sets

22. Reading Writing Project
http://readingandwritingproject.com/resources/book-lists-classroom-librariesand-text-sets-for-students/text-sets.html

23. MOREnet Resources
• Ebscohost
Log into EBSCOhost on your library’s computer and
choose a database with Lexiles, such as
• Primary Search,
• Middle Search Plus or
• MAS Ultra.
On the Basic Search screen, check Full Text, then
type in a magazine name in the Publication field.
Click Search. EBSCOhost will bring up all of the
articles from that magazine. Each article will have
a different Lexile measure.

24. Ebschost Advanced Search

25. Ebscohost Search by Source
1. Advanced Search
2. Change Search Field to SO Source
3. Key in Magazine Title

26. Ebscohost Search by
Source
Limit Search by
• Source Types
• Full Text
• Publication
Date

27. Search by Publications

28. Ebscohost – Search by Title
Scholastic Education Magazines Examples
Scholastic News – Grade 3
DynaMath – Grades 3 - 6
SuperScience – Grades 3 - 6
Storyworks – Grades 3 - 6
Junior Scholastic – Grades 6 - 8
Scholastic Scope – Grades 6 - 8
Scholastic Action – Grades 6 - 12
Scholastic Math – Grades 6 - 9
Science World – Grades 6 - 10

29. High School Resources

30. Ebscohost – Search by Title
Search for Teacher
Resources on
Magazine Websites

31. Teacher Resources to support
HTML text articles

32. More Ebscohost Titles
https://cobblestonepub.com/teachers-guides/

33. Ebscohost Search by Source

34. Teacher Guide Excerpt

35. Middle & High School Ideas for
Informational Text
Connect Science with High
Interest Topics such as deer
hunting.

36. Search for
Magazine Articles
Full Text – PDF
Format

37. Text Set Worksheet
Text Title
Content
Genre
Medium
Suggested
Activities
Title of Book,
Article, Video,
Citations
Key Words,
Vocabulary,
Connect with
common core
standards
Picture Book,
Print or Digital
Biography,
(Add URL’s if
Video, Podcast needed)
Primary Source
Curriculum
Connections,
lesson plans,
integrate
technology
Make your
own form that
works best for
your teachers.
Use curriculum
maps to select
objectives and
units of study.
Organize text
sets, paired
readings or
bundles.
Virtual baskets
with links to
articles and
online
resources.
Create real
text set
baskets to
check out

38. Collaborating
http://www.islma.org/ISAI
L.htm

39. ISAIL Example

40. Collaborating – Information Fluency
Continuum

41. Teaching With
Informational
Texts and the
IFC/CCSS
Alignment:
A Protocol for
Planning
Instruction

42. Teaching With
Informational
Texts and the
IFC/CCSS
Alignment:
A Protocol for
Planning
Instruction

43. Utah Lesson Plans – Check out the
Library Media Lessons

44. MORE FREE STUFF! http://textproject.org/

45. http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/

46. http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/

47. PBS Learning Media

49. Collaborating
• Click over lesson plans on Pinterest

50. More Informational Text Ideas –
Add posters on walls where students line up.

51. Bulletin Boards:
Data Walls, Wonder Research
Questions, or Vocabulary Word Walls

52. https://www.smore.com/scea-northwest-r-i-library-connections

53. Become a Common Core Curator!

54. School Librarians Supporting Common Core

55. Works Cited

Jaeger, Paige. "8 Reasons to Read in the Common Core." Web log post.
Librarydoor. N.p., 08 Apr. 2013. Web. 13 Apr. 2013.
<http://librarydoor.blogspot.com/2013/04/8-reasons-to-read-in-commoncore.html>.

Jaeger, Paige. "A Match Well Made: The Standards' Emphasis on Information
Aligns with Librarians' Skills | On Common Core." School Library Journal. N.p., 01
Nov. 2012. Web. 13 Apr. 2013. <http://www.slj.com/2012/11/opinion/on-commoncore/a-match-well-made-the-standards-emphasis-on-information-aligns-withlibrarians-skills/>

Moreillon, Judy. "School Library Monthly - A Matrix for School Librarians:
Aligning Standards, Inquiry, Reading, and Instruction." School Library Monthly - A
Matrix for School Librarians: Aligning Standards, Inquiry, Reading, and Instruction.
N.p., Jan. 2013. Web. 13 Feb. 2013.
<http://www.schoollibrarymonthly.com/articles/Morei llon2013-v29n4p29.html>.
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Morris, Rebecca. "School Library Monthly Blog: Mark It Up, Pass It Along, & See
Who Comes Knocking." School Library Monthly Blog. N.p., 6 Feb. 2013. Web. 13
Feb. 2013. <http://blog.schoollibrarymedia.com/index.php/2013/02/06/mark-itup-pass-it-along-see-who-comes-knocking/>.

56. Works Cited
Cappiello, Mary Ann., and Erika Thulin. Dawes. Teaching with Text Sets.
Huntington Beach, CA: Shell Education, 2013. Print.
Duke, Nell. "Starting Out: To Use in K–3." Educational Leadership:Tackling
Informational Text. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Nov. 2013.
<http://www.ascd.org/publications/educationalleadership/nov13/vol71/num03/toc.aspx>.
"Guide to Creating Text Sets for Grades 2 - 12." The Council of Chief State School
Officers. The Council of Chief State School Officers, n.d. Web. 01 Nov. 2013.
<http://www.ccsso.org/Documents/Text%20Complexity/Showroom%20Models/
Guide%20to%20Creating%20Text%20Sets.docx>.