Purposeful Teaching Tools

Complete your own “All About Me,” “All About Our Classroom,” “All About My Family,” and “All About This Book,” Depth and Complexity Posters! This is a fun and creative way to teach and apply Depth and Complexity Icons as students share about themselves, their classrooms, their families, and any of the non-fiction books they’ve read. An innovative and Common Core friendly approach to having students complete posters for Student of the Week, Beginning of the Year, Student Inventory, and Book Repo

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

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

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