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CREATING UNIVERSAL DESIGN FOR TIER IHow to unpack the Common Core State Standards through KUDs

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Understanding KUDsKNOW

Description Examples

Most often represented in bullet form:

• Facts

• Dates

• Definitions

• Rules

• Names of people

• Places

• There are fifty states.

• Thomas Jefferson

• 1492

• The Continental Divide

• Multiplication tables

• Rules of soccer

• Primary colors

Strickland, C.A. (2009). Professional development for differentiating instruction. Alexandria: VA: ASCD.

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Understanding KUDs:UNDERSTAND

Definition Examples

Best stated, “ I want students to understand that…”

• Big ideas

• Essential understandings

• Principles

• “Point” of a discipline

• Multiplication is another way to do addition.

• People migrate to meet basic needs.

• System parts are integrated.

• Writers use tools to shape their craft.

Strickland, C.A. (2009). Professional development for differentiating instruction. Alexandria: VA: ASCD.

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Understanding KUDs:DO

Definition Examples

Skills of a discipline, including basic skills

• Communication

• Thinking (analytical, critical, creative)

• Planning

• Evaluating

• Analyze a text for meaning.

• Solve a problem to find perimeter.

• Write a self-supporting argument.

• Contribute to the success of a group.

• Sort buttons into two poles.

Strickland, C.A. (2009). Professional Development for differentiating instruction. Alexandria: VA: ASCD

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Example ELA & Literacy CCSS

Grade 2 Grade 7 Grade 12

CC.2.RL.2Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.

CC.7.RL.9Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history.

CC.11-12.RI.Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness, or beauty of the text.

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RESOURCE:

http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/lib/sde/powerpointpresentations/curriculum/cali/ct_di_day_1.ppt