Dok question stems

Over the past 4 years, I have worked on the creation of many Common Core documents including curriculum guides, pacing guides, standard checklists and so on. When you review the language of the standards and look at nouns and the verbs, you will readily notice the close alignment with Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy and Webb’s Depth of Knowledge. In 2001, the new version of Bloom’s Taxonomy was released with Bloom’s six major categories changed from nouns to verbs. The knowledge level was renamed…

Everybody is talking about RIGOR or asking, "What is rigor?" If you do any research on rigor, you will find that rigor does not mean difficulty. Instead rigor means the level of mental processing that must occur to answer a question, perform a task or generate a product. Two widely used measures of rigor are Bloom's Taxonomy and Webb's Depth of Knowledge Levels. Both measures of rigor go from the simple to the complex. Karen Hess' Cognitive Rigor Matrix integrates these models as a strategy…

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Prime Plan The DoK Levels added to questions will be reflected in reports. Teachers can easily track and show growth of students...

Question stems can be used as thinking prompts for class discussions, prompting, and various forms of assessment.

From many years of working with ELLs I have learned that one key ingredient in their success is exposing them to the language of assessments- those sentence structures that often stump them. I have had many students tell me they don't know what a question is asking them and once I reword the question they are able to answer it. Finally I had a light bulb moment and decided kids need practice having discussions and writing pieces while using rigorous language. Description, sequence, cause and…

Webb's Depth of Knowledge chart.

Fabulous kid friendly chart of Depth of Knowledge levels of questioning from Ms. Vanegas!