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.
Create your own roadmap
- Watch a video on how to complete a roadmap
- Try an interactive roadmap
- Download a map to complete
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.
- 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 (Kids Discover) |
| 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 |
Roadmaps from NC teachers: Check out this collection of roadmaps created by North Carolina teachers.
