Ladder of Complexity
Categories/Anchor Standard
General Knowledge 1
Cognitive Demand
General Knowledge 2
100
Differentiation focuses on differentiating lessons based on _____________, ____________, and/or ______________
content, process, product
100
The ELA standards that include the following anchor standards - conventions in standard English, knowledge of language, and vocabulary acquisition and use.
What are language standards?
100
The six categories of ELA standards
What are reading informational, reading literature, writing, language, reading foundational, speaking and listening standards?
100
Developed in 1956 and revised in 2005, this method is used to promote higher order thinking in three domains of learning - knowledge, skills, and attitudes (including the categories of remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating)
What is Bloom's Taxonomy?
100
The CCSS stretch Lexile band is 420 - 820 for these grade levels
What is grades 2 - 3?
200
The two standards that anchor/support all other reading standards
What are Standard 1 - Text-based Evidence and Standard 10 - Text Complexity?
200
The ELA standards that include the following anchor standards - key ideas and details, craft and structure, integration of knowledge and ideas, range of reading and level of text complexity
What are reading standards?
200
The percentage balance of reading informational texts and reading literature texts in elementary
What is a 50/50 balance?
200
The name of Level 1 of Webb's Depth of Knowledge
What is Recall and Reproduction?
200
The CCSS stretch Lexile band is 740 - 1010 for these grade levels
What are grades 4 - 5?
300
Reading Standards 1 - 3 focus on these
What are key ideas and details?
300
The ELA standards that include the following anchor standards - fluency, phonics, and word recognition.
What are reading foundational skills standards?
300
The three key ELA shifts
What are complexity, evidence, and knowledge?
300
The name of Level 2 of Webb's Depth of Knowledge
What is Skills and Concepts?
300
Having high expectations of all students, providing scaffolding and support to ensure that all students demonstrate learning at high levels
What is a definition of rigor?
400
Reading Standards 4 - 6 focuses on this
What is textual analysis of author's craft and structure?
400
The ELA standards that include the following anchor standards - text types and purposes, production and distribution, research to build and present knowledge, and range.
What are writing standards?
400
The three measures of text complexity
What are qualitative, quantitative, and reader/task considerations?
400
The name of Level 3 of Webb's Depth of Knowledge
What is Strategic Thinking?
400
Making Thinking Visible is, in essence, __________________
What are Think Alouds (teacher and student)?
500
Reading Standards 7 - 9 focus on this
What is the integration of knowledge and ideas?
500
The ELA standards that include the following anchor standards - comprehension and collaboration, presentation of knowledge and ideas.
What are speaking and listening standards?
500
The four components of balanced literacy
What are reading, writing, listening, and speaking standards?
500
The name of Level 4 of Webb's Depth of Knowledge
What is Extended Thinking?
500
Refers to talk that is meaningful, respectful, and mutually beneficial to both speaker and listener; Stimulates higher-order thinking—helping students to learn, reflect on their learning, and communicate their knowledge and understanding.
What is accountable talk?
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