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Depth & Complexity Desk Plates, 4th Grade – 6th Grade Version (JTE-36D) *without Math Icons

Depth and Complexity Desk Plates are a great resource for your scholarly students. There are three different versions to choose from: K-1st grade, 2nd-3rd grade, and 4th-6th grade. Each desk plate facilitates high-level thinking and includes appropriate and challenging thinking tools, such as Depth and Complexity Icons, Content Imperatives, “Expert” perspectives, and scholarly behaviors. The [...]

Digital Content Imperative Icons

Get the same convenience and usability with these digital icons as you’ve enjoyed with the Depth and Complexity ones. You choose the ones you need and drag and drop onto instructions materials and reproducibles. Apply to PowerPoint presentations, interactive whiteboards, or any of your files. These two sets, one naming each concept, and one showing [...]

Product Instructions

By JTaylor | Published: January 5, 2012
Printable instructions for some of our most popular products

Cinderella As You’ve Never Known Her: A Deep, Complex, and Multicultural Look (JTE-40)

“Cinderella, whose stepsisters go to great lengths to force their too-large feet into Cinderella’s petite, delicate footwear, emerges in many versions from around the world. Cinderella finds her prince from Mexico to China, from India to the shores of Lake Ontario, and all points in between.” All age groups can enjoy and learn in deep and complex ways about this iconic fairy tale character and the many cultures and settings in which she (or he) resides. We have employed depth and complexity dimensions and many thinking skill levels to allow teachers to differentiate for all learners. A collection of template work pages and projects provides opportunities for students to interact with the topic of multicultural tales. Additionally, this book includes an extensive bibliography of Cinderella tales from around the world. The authors' exciting presentations on this subject provide a rich and welcome addition to any literature, history, or geography unit.

Tiered Literacy Centers—Digital Version (JTE-17D)

Supporting learners within a diverse classroom setting can be challenging. While teachers work with small groups of children, other students in the classroom need independent, rigorous and meaningful ways to interact with literature. Tiered Literacy Centers encourages independent thinking and meaningful responses to fiction and nonfiction literature through the use of creative and supportive task cards. There are more than 60 engaging, tiered Task Cards that are leveled to promote a range of critical thinking skills. Use them repeatedly with texts, books, magazines, and newspapers. Tiered Literacy Centers is ideal for readers who are at grade level, EL’s, gifted EL’s and gifted students in mixed-ability classes. Center ideas and time management strategies are provided.

Independent Study—Digital Version (JTE-4D)

These sets of materials are designed to be copied and put to work right away in your classroom. Each set - there are 6, plus a depth & complexity set for a learning center - directs independent study in a different way. Some sets are for older students, some for younger ones, and there’s a set for limited or “not-yet-readers.” Some sets focus on depth and complexity, others focus on research skills or a thematic approach. There’s a full complement of introductory material on the underlying rationale for independent study, how and when it can take place, and how standards are related. You’ll find a set of skill practice pages, charts to enlarge for the classroom, and record keeping and evaluation worksheets to round out the program.

Frames—Digital Version (JTE-5D)

Use frames to get your students thinking like a sociologist, geographer, philosopher and more. Other frames help evaluate student products, explore themes and generalizations, focus on critical and creative thinking skills, and apply depth and complexity to the core curriculum. Frames are ready for classroom display and transparency making. Differentiation for gifted students becomes easy to capture. You’ll “frame” your response to the needs of all students with this ready-to-use collection.

The Flip Book—Digital Version (JTE-7D)

A no-fail aid for teachers and students who are designing differentiated learning activities. Segmented mix-and- match pages, which present terms and symbolic illustrations, provide the means: clearly developed examples and explanations provide the why, what and how. Thinking skills, research skills, options for sharing learning, and differentiation based on the elements depth, complexity and novelty are the basis of this method. Includes how to use the activities you’ll develop as lessons, learning center tasks, independent project work and at-home learning activities. The Flip Book has a new white front cover.

The Flip Book, Too—Digital Version (JTE-1D)

The highly anticipated sequel to “The Flip Book,” one of our most popular, is finally here! The Flip Book, Too provides a means for teachers to develop significant, challenging content for high-ability learners - a vital component in the creation of appropriately differentiated lessons. The four segmented mix-and-match pages are comprised of Content Imperatives, Depth & Complexity, Universal Concepts, and Thinking Skills. Use all or only a few of them as you structure your lessons to suit your students’ needs. Included are charts of resources, reference skills, and products that can be utilized along with your newly developed content to complete a differentiated lesson. Ideas are also presented for using The Flip Book, Too along with independent study and learning centers, as part of follow-up assignments, and on bulletin boards. Flip Book Too, while an entirely new book, is related to the original Flip Book in general format and style.

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By JTaylor | Published: December 7, 2011
a great gift idea for a teacher or colleague!
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