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__Common Core State Standards For English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects__ __Appendix B: Text Exemplars and Sample Performance Tasks__

Text Exemplars and Sample Performance Tasks

//Selecting Text Exemplars:// //The following text samples primarily serve to exemplify the level of complexity and quality that the Standards require all students in a given grade band to engage with. Additionally, they are suggestive of the breadth of texts that students should encounter in the text types required by the Standards. The choices should serve as useful guideposts in helping educators select texts of similar required by the Standards. The choices should serve as useful guideposts in helping educators select texts of similar complexity, quality, and range for their own classrooms. They expressly do not represent a partial or complete reading list.//

Grades 6-8 Exemplars: pages 77-92; Sample Performance Tasks: pages 89-93 Grades 9-10 Exemplars: pages 101-120; Sample Performance Tasks: pages 121-130

__Common Core State Standards For English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects__ __Appendix A: Research Supporting Key Elements of the Standards and Glossary of Key terms__

Writing Definitions of the standards’ three text types pages 23-25

Figure 18: Language Progressive Skills, by Grade: page 31 Vocabulary: pages 32-35 Glossary of Key Terms: pages 42-43

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