Purposeful Teaching Tools

Color your own “All About Me” Depth and Complexity Pennants! This is a fun and creative way to apply Depth and Complexity Icons and a student-centered approach to decorating your classroom for Back to School Night, Open House, or all year long! A unique approach to your Student of the Week projects! Students enjoy completing this creative and fun project as a wonderful “Get to know you” activity in the beginning of the year (or any time of the year)! Perfect for decorating your GATE classro

Are you new to Depth and Complexity Icons? Not sure how to begin teaching your students about the prompts of Depth and Complexity? This product has a day-by-day lesson plan that shares the most simplest way I would teach Depth and Complexity Icons starting on the *first day of school by applying all 11 Icons to things around the classroom or school! It also includes one of Purposeful Teaching Tool’s most popular teaching tools: D&C Note-taking cards that can be reproduced and used ALL year

Use for a variety of student and grade level needs! Choose the one that fits your grade level/teaching goal for each Depth and Complexity lesson! The 4 Depth and Complexity Frames Included: 1) Blank NO LINES (for drawing illustrations) 2) Some Lines & Empty Space (for pictures and some words) 3) Just Lines (for writing sentences, no pictures) 4) Lines with request for Pg. #s (for referencing text and writing explanations). - Also includes teaching suggestions. Background knowledge and trainin

A 33 page 100% Common Core Aligned Literature Study Unit incorporating Graphic Organizers and Icons for the novel, The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo. A fantastic resource for teaching higher-level thinking in a general education English Language Arts classroom, GATE classroom, or to challenge your gifted and talented students in an enrichment RTI group! Using D&C Icons, students reach the different levels of Depth of Knowledge and follow Common Core State Standards in English Language Ar

Depth and Complexity Prompts Note Taking Cards for teaching Common Core State Standards and/or GATE! Use D&C Prompts to guide students to think critically about everything they are learning about in the classroom. Use them in Literature Units, Guided Reading, Literature Circles, Mathematics Groups, Social Studies, and Science! Aligned with Common Core State Standards! Students fill in the note-taking card with a specific example to fit the Icon represented and there is a space for recordin

This Task Card Set is full of learning tools and strategies for teaching Common Core Literature Units and higher level Reading Strategies! Use these in combination with ANY Reading Unit or Literature Study. Task Cards have graphic organizers that include D&C Icons to prompt students towards higher level thinking, reading, and learning. This is a MUST HAVE for any ELA Common Core and/or GATE Literacy Teacher! Includes 7 COMMON CORE Aligned Task Cards/Maps: * The CCSS is listed on the bott

This product is a perfect tool for students to use to record their thinking during STEM / STEAM activities in your Depth and Complexity using class. If you are already doing various STEM/STEAM activities (or plan to), these recording sheets will be a great resource to use as you guide your students in the engineering and design thinking process using Depth and Complexity Icons! Use these D&C STEM Recording Sheets before, during, and after each of your Design Thinking or Design Challenges. (

Depth and Complexity meets STEM / STEAM! If you are a D&C GATE Classroom that is also implementing S.T.E.M. and S.T.E.A.M. activities, this product is the perfect tool to use for planning and recording during Engineering and Design Challenges / Activities! They are the perfect guide for your Gifted and Talented students to use in the engineering and design thinking process through the use of Depth and Complexity Icons! Use the Depth and Complexity STEM / STEAM Planning and Recording Frame b