4th grade DOK questioning strategies lessons

From the cluster teacher training:October 27, 2017

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Reading/writing

Math

Science

Social Studies

Social studies

Branches of Government

Science lessons

Life Science-plants and animals

Rapid Earth Changes: Adaptations

Energy

Energy

Habitats and endangered species

Math lessons

multiplication

Reading lessons

Cause and effect Biographies

Author’s purpose Character Traits

Point of view Figurative Language

Actions & Reactions THEME

Poetry

Reading: Cause/EffectStandard: Recognize relationship between cause and effect

Level 1: State 1 cause and effect from the text

Level 2: Use context clues to infer the effect when only the cause is given.

Level 3: Formulate a cause/effect relationship by changing one element of the story

Level 4: Connect a cause/effect relationship to another piece of literature in the same genre and describe the impact it had on the story.

Multiplication

Students will solve two digit by two digit whole number multiplication problems

Level 1: Using the standard multiplication method solve these problems: 32x42, 16x24, 10x66

Level 2: Mrs. Ramsey bought 14 pizzas for her Halloween Party. The pizzas cost $12 each including tax. How much did Mrs. Ramsey spend?

Level 3: Develop your own 2x2 multiplication problem. Write directions on how to solve it. Explain why those directions help solve the problem

Level 4: Create a model to solve a multiplication problem without using the standard algorithm. Explain why it works.

Author’s purpose

Identify the Author’s purpose if a variety of texts

Level 1: Read a text and identify the author’s purpose

Level 2: Make a list of keywords or phrases author’s use to show their purpose

Level 3: Read a text and determine the author’s purpose. Determine how it affects the interpretation of a passage.

Level 4: Create a story connecting two genres that allow for more than one author’s purpose

Cause and Effect

Entry Level: Describe the cause and effect of Halloween

Advanced: Construct a cause and effect relationship between animals in an ecosystem

Challenging: Analyze and synthesize the causes and effects from several texts (mimcry and camouflage texts).

Plot Elements

Entry Level: Identify plot elements of Cinderella from interactive website

Advanced Level: Compare and contrast two versions of Cinderella plot elements

Challenging Level: Analyze protagonist and antagonist of Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood; describe their similarities and differences

Life Science-Plants and animals

Objective: Students understand that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function and support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

Level 1: Identify the 6 life processes

Level 2: Compare and contrast plant and animal cells

Level 3: Create a dichotomous chart to determine whether something is a living organism or not.

Level 4: Create a new organism and analyze how it fulfills each life process requirement

Science: Rapid Earth Changes: Adaptations

Entry Level: Students will complete graphic organizer answering research questions about animal or plant adaptations

Advanced: Students will construct a brochure explaining their animal or plant adaptations

Most Challenging: Students will design their own animal or plant and prove how it will adapt in its environment

Identify first and third person point of view

Entry level lesson: Define first and third person and identify and label sentences as being written in either first or 3rd person. Identify and sort and label each sentence strip into 1st and 3rd person. Work on grade level task cards with on-level text

Advanced activities: Determine the points of view of a photo. Create and write a story based upon that point of view. Using pictures from ELA OER grade 4-Analyze pictures for possible POV. Select a point of view to construct a paragraph (3-5 sentences) to describe photo. Using passage provided, apply knowledge of POV to determine which POV it is written and write in the other POV making changes as needed.

Most challenging activities: Research first and third person. Write a story in first person and then rewrite the same story in third person. Reflect on how switching the point of view affects the story. Choose a photo of a scene and write a 1-2 page paper including 3 parts: Analyze the photo to determine perspectives of the scene, Create your own short story based on the photo-write it in 1st and then in 3rd, finally...describe the difference in the interpretation of the photo when written in 1st person vs 3rd person.

Reading: Actions & Reactions-THEME

Entry Level: Students will recognize words and phrases in an informational text that suggest the organizational structure and the relationships they reveal (sequence, comparisons, etc. Could also be used with Glossary, Index, Captions, etc

Advanced: Students will create a poster or anchor chart demonstrating knowledge of each text feature or theme of a story

Most Challenging: Analyze and Synthesize an informational piece from newspaper, magazine, or online and explain why and how the text features help support the work.

Reading/Writing: Poetry

DOK 1-Recognize characteristics of poetry-line, stanza, rhyme

DOK 2-Classify the different types of poetry

DOK 3-Construct four different types of poems

DOK 4- Compare and analyze your four poems then create your own genre or unique style of poetry. Compare and Contrast it to your other poems.

Energy

Standard: Students can ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy when objects collide/interact.

Entry level activity: STEM activity-7 pennies, groups 2-3 use coins to demonstrate energy and motion.

Advanced activity: change parameters ex. Faster flick, softer flick, surface, or coin

Most challenging activities: create a game with rules that utilizes the energy concepts in the unit

Energy

Standard: Students can use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of an object.

Entry level activity: STEM Activity--marble exploration of the speed needed to move another marble. Experiment with surface & inclined plane.

Advanced activity: Using marble works or other pre-designed system, get your marble to a goal in least amount of time.

Most challenging activity: Given various materials, design your own marble run. Justify your choice of materials. Test, conclude, revise.

Habitats/Endangered Animals

Entry Level: Provide research questions, websites and paragraph writing template (1 paragraph required)

Advanced: Provide research questions and students determine relevant information from research; 3 paragraph essay required (intro, 1 body paragraph and conclusion)

Challenge: Students construct research questions based on endangered animals and its habitat; students determine relevant information from research; 5 paragraph essay (intro, 3 body paragraphs, conclusion)

Branches of Government Objective: Students will understand the roles and responsibilities of the three different branches of government.

DOK 1: Name the 3 branches of government. Match the 3 branches of government to their responsibilities.

DOK 2: Compare and contrast the 3 branches of government. Construct a graphic organizer showing the powers each branch has.

DOK 3: Hypothesize what would happen if we lost a branch of government. Which branch of government do you believe is most important? Develop a logical argument defending your answer.

DOK 4: Create a new government. Create a persuasive pamphlet with the roles and responsibilities of its citizens. Some components of our system of government were inspired by different philosophers and foreign governments. If you were responsible for creating a new governement, which ancient and modern systems would you be most likely to model? Which elements of those systems do you feel would be most beneficial?

Biographies

DOK 1: Write basic facts about a specific person. Illustrate your person.

DOK 2: Organize a timeline of the most important dates in their history. Pretend you have this person over for dinner, what questions would you ask?

DOK 3: Compare and contrast the person to either yourself or a past/present of similar occupation or status. Create a suitcase that represents their person.

DOK 4: Summarize why the items are still valuable. Create a project that would be able to explain how that person had an impact on US History.

Character Traits

DOK 1: Identify the main characters in the story. List the different character traits in the main characters through a chosen graphic organizer.

DOK 2: Compare a character’s feelings and how he/she change throughout the story. Explain what caused the change.

DOK 3: Relate a character to someone they know in real life and explain similarities and differences through a graphic organizer. Determine the author’s purpose in the change of the character and what is the reason for the change.

DOK 4: Create an alternative ending to the story. Analyze the character’s feelings based on the new ending. Did the character’s feelings/reactions change. Why or why not?

Figurative Language

4.3.R.4-Students will find examples of literary devices.

DOK 1: Define the different literary devices (ie: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, etc).

DOK 2: Find 4 examples of literary devices in text. Classify which device is being used.

DOK 3 & 4: Develop a logical argument for why authors use literary devices in writing. Give evidence through different texts of that argument.