READ 5305: Welcome

• Creating text sets for whole class instruction: English Language Arts, grades K-12

  Discusses common core standards and text sets

• Creating Text Sets for Your Classroom

  A brief overview of creating text sets

• Teaching with text sets

  A blog post detailing the New York City tree text set from the book "Teaching with Text Sets" by Mary Ann Cappiello and Erika Thulin Dawes.

• Create Text Sets

  Step by step guide to creating text sets, including a video.

• Building Multimodal Text Sets & Building 21st Century Skills 

A text set is a collection of sources that support a common theme, issue or topic. Text sets should include a variety of genres, text types, levels and formats.

Examples of material include (but are not limited to):

• fiction (novels, picture books, short stories)
• non fiction
• poetry
• images
• newspaper and magazine articles
• apps
• webcasts and podcasts
• websites
• artwork
• songs
• primary sources (interviews, documents, artifacts)

What steps are involved in putting together a text set?

1. Start with the content - what do students need to know or in other words --  what do you need to teach?
2. Build the text set  - find material that supports the content you want to teach and want students to learn.
3. Organize the texts - how and when will you use the texts?
4. Creating and responding to texts - how will students work with the texts, what will they do with the texts? (Cappiello, 2013)

A few essential questions to ask and/or issues to consider when assembling a text set.

1. Think about the standards. What are students expected to know and be able to do? This can dictate the topics/themes chosen.
2. What do you (the teacher) want students to know (beyond the standards)?
3. What topics/themes/content will engage and excite students (Cappiello, 2013)?

Cappiello, M. A., & Dawes, E. T. (2013). Teaching with text sets. Huntington Beach, Calif: Shell Education.

• Primary source sets

• Library of Congress primary sources

• Teaching with primary sources

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