Kindergarten

Kindergarten uses Depth and Complexity across all subject areas. Since implementing Depth and Complexity, we have seen growth in student engagement, rigor of lessons, student collaboration, and reading comprehension.

Hyperdocs

Using Hyperdocs in the classroom allow for more student- paced work. Embedding icons into the hyperdoc allows the teacher to guided student thinking and responses, just by using different icons. You can see from this example.

Tiered Problem Solving

Tiered Problem solving allows for students to complete a problem on their instructional level. We also use the icons to guided their thinking to help them complete the problem independently.

Read- Aloud Discussions

Using Depth and Complexity has deepened our discussions of read-alouds. Students are excited to pick an icon, and engage in academic discussions with peers. Using this frame allows for learning to be visual. Students are able to take the information from the frame, and turn it into a Reader's Response.

Reader's Response

We use the icons to allow for student choice during Reader's Response time. In this example, students used the Multiple Perspectives Icon to write a Reader's Response over the book, Groundhog's Dilemma. Students had to decide if they wanted spring or winter.

Reader's Response Modeling

For this Reader's Response, we used the Multiple Perspectives Icon to allow for student choice. Students were instructed to choose a character (Yertle or Mack) and explain how they felt. Students used the sentence starters to help them start their Reader's Response.

Choice Reader's Response

After a read- aloud, we engage in high quality book discussion. We use the icons to discuss the book, and we pick some icons that we would like to write a Reader's Response about. This is the choice menu that students used to write about One Day in the Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus Tree.

Lesson Opening

We use icon frames to make learning more visual for our learners. Students are able to connect the content to the icon. This lesson used the Details Icon to discuss expectations for partner reading.

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Reading Comprehension

Students are able to use this choice board during independent/ partner reading time to practice reading comprehension. Students choose an icon, and discuss how that icon relates to the book. We have seen so much growth in reading comprehension this year!

Student Reference

We use this anchor chart for students to make references too. Students use this to refer to for discussion, Reader's Responses, and partner reading.

Science Lessons

We use various icons to expand our teaching in Science. Using the icons in the opening, work period, and closing has improved our students' scientific knowledge. In the first picture, we used the Unanswered Questions Icon in the closing to see if the students still had 'wonders' about fish. This allows us to tailor our lesson for the next day. In the second picture, we used the Big Idea Icon to explain matter.

Science Writing

Using the icons in Science Writing allows students to make deep connections to their learning. In the first example, the student using the Details Icon to describe her leaf. She then wrote the descriptive words at the bottom. In the second example, the student used the Over Time Icon to describe how a fish changes over time (life cycle).

Peer Feedback

Students use the Unanswered Questions icon to guide them in the feedback they give to their writing buddy. Students share their writing with each other, and write down an unanswered question they still had about their partner's story. Then students took the feedback and used it help them revise their stories. This can also be done verbally.

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