TEXT COMPLEXITY IN COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS AND LITERACY AND SOME DIRECTIONS FOR VIETNAM

Abstract

Appendix A of the Common Core State Standards defines the text complexity for English language arts and literacy. By analyzing somefactors suchas the type of text, the readers, and the purposes of reading, this article identifies the contents to be adjusted and supplemented in terms of text complexity for Vietnamese Language Arts and Literature. The paper also proposes a particular way to choose texts for teaching reading comprehension as well as provides some teachers guidance to assess this subject.

text complexity in Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy and some directions FORVietnam

Nguyen Phuoc Bao Khoi, Do Gia Linh

Ho Chi Minh City University of Education

Tran Dai Nghia High School for the gifted

Corresponding author: Nguyen Phuoc Bao Khoi – Email: khoinpb@hcmue.edu.vn

Received: December 04, 2018; Revised: August 26, 2019; Accepted: February 19, 2020

ABSTRACT

Appendix A of the Common Core State Standards defines the text complexity for English language arts and literacy. By analyzing somefactors suchas the type of text, the readers, and the purposes of reading, this article identifies the contents to be adjusted and supplemented in terms of text complexity for Vietnamese Language Arts and Literature. The paper also proposes a particular way to choose texts for teaching reading comprehension as well as provides some teachers guidance to assess this subject.

Keywords:text complexity; reading comprehension teaching; Language Arts and
Literature; texts