Year One – Day Three

Sandie Toohey

Site GATE Resource Kit

The Icon GameUse the game to generate individual response, as a tool with the entire class, at a literary station, or as an assessment tool. Using the Icon

Game as they develop better communication, comprehension, and

high-level thinking skills.

Q3 CardsThe Q3 Cards provide a valuable tool for developing quality questions to

differentiate curriculum through the use of the dimensions of depth and

complexity.

The question-stem cards can be used to hook student interest culminate an

activity, or enhance a discussion.

Literature Response

JournalA collection of worksheets that provides workspace to

analyze each icon.

A resource for the primary teachers and students who need more space

for illustrations and labels.

Deep and Complex Look at

MeEncourage your students to take a

deep and complex look at the themselves, history figures, or

literary characters.

Students will demonstrate understanding on templates that

require written and visual evidence.

Tiered Literacy Centers

Tiered Literacy Centers encourages independent thinking and

meaningful responses to fiction and nonfiction literature through the use of creative and support task cards.

More than 60 engaging, tiered Task Cards that are leveled to promote a

range of critical thinking skills.

The Flip BookA tool for designing differentiated

learning activities. Segmented mix-and-match pages present thinking skills, research skills, options for

sharing learning, and differentiation.

The Flip Book Too

This book will provide significant, challenging content of appropriately

differentiated lessons.

The Flip Book Too, contains ideas that go along with independent study and

learning center.

Deep and Complex Look

BookA collection of templates for each of the depth and complexity thinking

prompts (icons) that can be used to engage all learners.

Templates can be used as whole class activities, independent study

projects, collaborative learning tools, book reports, and pre/post

assessments.

Independent Study

These sets of materials are designed to be copied and put to work right

away in your classroom. Each of the six sets directs independent study for

all level of readers.

It includes skills practice pages, charts to enlarge for the classroom, and record keeping and evaluation sheets to round out the program.

FramesUse these frame templates to get

students to think like a disciplinarian or analyze a story.

The frames are ready for classroom use and display and help facilitate the use of depth and complexity in

the classroom.

Empower Primary and

Inspire ChangeYour primary students will be

scholars! This resource will explain to teachers the “how and why” of

introducing and implementing the depth and complexity icons.

It includes songs, worksheets, student examples, and photos to

complement each lesson.

Differentiation Smart Reference

GuideThe 22 flip pages are designed from simple to more advanced, as they take teachers through the steps of

differentiation.

There are a number of content and grade specific examples throughout

the pages.

A Great Reference Tool!

Math Icon CardsA simple and easily remembered set of icons can be used to differentiated

your math standards.

Encourage your students with probing questions, complex thinking about math concepts, and research

into math history. Each card has resources on the back.

Rubber StampsThe Resource Kit includes six sets

of rubber stamps.

•Content Imperative Grading Stamp

•Content Imperative Icon Stamps

•Depth & Complexity Grading Stamp

•Depth & Complexity Icon Stamps (no title)

•Depth & Complexity Icon Stamps (title)

•Math Icon Stamps

The Scholar in Me

The Scholar in Me is a charming, rhyming “big book” that introduces Primary students to the depth and complexity icons and encourages students to view themselves as

scholars.

Note: This big book is not located inside the black resource box because

of it’s size.