Building Language Based Activities: Digging Below the Surface

Cindy Shaffer, Stevie Kline, Michael Derman

Write 3 Questions About this Picture

Webb’s Depth of Knowledge

Why DOK? Webb's Depth of Knowledge (DOK) provides a

vocabulary and a frame of reference when thinking about our students and how they engage with the content.

DOK offers a common language to understand "rigor," or cognitive demand, in assessments, as well as curricular units, lessons, and tasks.

Webb developed four DOK levels that grow in cognitive complexity and provide educators a lens on creating more cognitively engaging and challenging tasks.

Why DOK?

Instruction

Questions

Assessment

Student Achievement

Standards-DOK Level

How Does DOK Impact the Classroom? DOK levels are a ceiling, not a target. We

need to question and assess at various levels to gain important information about student learning along the achievement continuum.

We can no longer rely solely on “tell-me-what-I-told-you” answers and assessments.

We need to build questions and assessments that require the child to read the text to acquire answer

We need to create “demonstrate-and-apply-what-you-have-learned” tasks and assessments to ensure mastery.

Recall and Reproduction: Level 1

Skills/Concepts: Level 2

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Strategic Thinking: Level 3

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Extended Thinking: Level 4

DOK Levels Can be Cumulative

It’s not about the verb…

How Does DOK Impact the Classroom?

DOK levels are ceilings not targets.

Long gone are “tell me what I told you to do”

answers and assessments

QTA:Require

students to explain answers

Apply R, W, M skills using

challenging content

Demonstrate and apply

what you’ve learned

QTA:Require child to read the

text to answer

“Sweating to the Rigor”

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Questions to Promote Thinking

Questions to Promote Thinking Text to self Text to text Text to world Main idea Author’s purpose Inference Cause/Effect

Questioning Predicting Illustrating Idiom Summarize

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Creating Questions – All Together Now Read article “World War I: A bloody birth to

modernism in art” Whole group will develop questions

Grade and Lexile Correspondence

Creating Questions – With Partner Find a partner Pick an article Create questions for both versions Create questions from several categories Discuss with partner

How do questions differ with lexile level? What levels of DOK does each question represent?

Wait Time

Questions

Exit Ticket Retrieve your Please Do Now handout Write three questions about this image that

would require a greater depth of knowledge to answer