Explore Text Roadmaps
A Roadmap provides a way to organize information about the complexity of a text. It offers an overview of all of your measures as well as a recommendation for placement, possible scaffolds needed, and ideas for instruction.
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Practice
Using Kate Chopin's Ripe Figs, complete a Blank Roadmap. (Template in PDF or Word).
Download a copy of the Ripe Figs Text. Closely read and annotate.
Obtain a quantitative measure using the Short Guide to Quantitative Tools.
Analyze the qualitative features of the text with the support of the Qualitative Rubric for Literary and Informational Texts. Be sure to look back at your annotations to the text to help.
Using your professional judgment, evaluate the Reader and Task Considerations for this text. Note particular challenges the text may pose, and offer ideas for supporting all students in accessing the text. Consider Reader and Task Considerations for Equity.
See a Completed Roadmap of Ripe Figs by the Kansas Department of Education.
Check out our Roadmaps Library Educators from across the U.S. submitted these roadmaps. They offer ideas and suggestions for text placement and instruction.
The ELA SCASS has provided this collection of exemplar roadmaps for review. Please note that the roadmaps are not a definitive determination. We recognize teachers have different considerations to make in light of their students and tasks. It also is important to note that it is very helpful to go through the process of determining text complexity and exemplar the roadmaps serve as strong examples. We encourage teachers to learn how to use the tool and then discuss their findings within PLCs .
K-1
Literary: Leo the Late Bloomer, Amazing Grace
Informational: My Feet
2-3
Literary: The Stories Julian Tells
Informational: Wonders of Nature
4-5
Literary: The View from Saturday, Seedfolks, When Mr. Jefferson Came to Philadelphia
Informational: American Revolution
6-8
Literary: All of the Above, The Hunger Games
Informational: Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution (excerpt), George Washington: Spymaster
9-10
Literary: The Lottery
Informational: Remarks on the Assassination of MLK, Four Freedoms Speech, Quilt of a Country
11-12
Literary: The Scarlet Letter
Informational: The Mysteries of Mass, Preface to The Meaning of Art: Its Nature, Role, and Value
Other roadmaps and text set collections:
Roadmaps from NC teachers: Check out this collection of roadmaps created by North Carolina teachers.
Kentucky Text Sets contains standards aligned text sets created by teachers.
Achieve the Core Text Sets support all learners, especially those with background knowledge or vocabulary deficits, by building up these domains through a volume of reading on Science, Social Studies, and other high interest topics.
Louisiana Guidebooks are built around text sets.