Know - Understand - Do KUD Scaffold

Standard Know Understand Do

To demonstrate To demonstrate To demonstrate mastery of
mastery of this mastery of this this standard what skills
standard what standard what major [verbs] must students be
knowledge concepts, key ideas, or able to demonstrate?
[nouns] will the connections must
students need to students walk away
have? with?

3rd Grade: RL3..1 Academic How to have collaborate Ask and answer questions
Ask and answer Language conversation. based on evidence from a text.
questions to ● Question How to be prepared for a
demonstrate ● Refer discussion. Asks and answers questions in
understanding of ● Demonstrate How to respond to a discussion offering relevant
a text, referring ● Text others in a discussion and effective elaboration and
explicitly to the dependent . detail.
text as the basis ● Collaborative How to write a text
for the answers. conversation dependent question.
SL3.1 Ask ● Prepared
questions to
check
understanding of
information
presented, stay on
topic, and link
their comments to
the remarks of
others

Task Description
Describe an engaging task that your students will complete. This doesn’t have to be a
long or complex task. Think about keeping it simple.
Students read a story from the literature anthology in WONDERS. As they read, they
write down text dependent questions an index card. Next, students meet in small
groups to have a collaborative conversation. Students take turns asking questions
and responding to other questions. Answers should include evidence from the text.

Questioning Strategy
Describe the strategy you will use with your students in order to
encourage their formation of questions during the lesson.

Q-Matrix
Students should write a one text dependent question from each of the four quadrants
on the q-matix.