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Common Core State Standards

Thinking Maps® as Tools

Determine the meaning of domain-specific and general academic vocabulary.

Brainstorming or

Defining in Context Use relevant descriptive

details and sensory language in reading and writing.

Describing

Compare and contrast important points in two texts or points of view. Draw informal comparative inferences about two populations.

Comparing and

Contrasting

Determine main idea of text. Recount the key supporting details in complex texts.

Classifying

Essential Questions

Circle Map

Bubble Map

Double Bubble Map

Tree Map

What does _____ mean? Can you define ________?

How would you describe this ________? What qualities are important for this _________?

What are the similarities and differences between ________? What similarities do you think are most important?

What are the ideas and details that support your main idea?

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Common Core State Standards

Thinking Maps® as Tools

Sequencing

Cause and

Effect

Essential Questions

What is the major parts of _______? How can _____ be decomposed?

What happened next? In what order should you sequence _______?

What are the causes and effects of ______? What was the motivation behind ________?

What is the similar relationship between ______? How are these two ______ related?

Decode words with common affixes; find all factor pairs for a whole number.

Part-to-WholeBrace Map

Understand solving an equation or inequality as a process of answering questions.

Flow Map

Evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text.Determine the impact of author’s purpose and point of view have on a text.

Multi-Flow Map

Analyze the relationship between a primary and secondary sources. Analyze patterns and relationships.

Seeing Relationships

Bridge Map

Common Core Standard:Understand and use general (Tier 2) and

domain-specific (Tier 3) academic vocabulary.

What does _________ mean? Can you define ______________?

Cognitive Vocabulary:DEFINE

BRAINSTORMCONTEXT CLUES

LISTIDENTIFY

TELL ABOUTPRIOR KNOWLEDGE

EXPLORE THE MEANINGDISCUSS

Common Core Standard:Use relevant descriptive details and sensory language

in reading and writing.

How would you describe____________? What are the characteristics of ___________________?

Cognitive Vocabulary:DESCRIBE

OBSERVE USING 5 SENSESUSE VIVID LANGUAGEDESCRIBE FEELINGS

ATTRIBUTESPROPERTIES

CHARACTERISTICS QUALITITESADJECTIVES

Common Core Standard:Compare and contrast important points in

two texts or points of view

What are the similarities and differences between _________ and ___________? How are _____________ and

______________ alike and different?

Cognitive Vocabulary:

COMPARE AND CONTRASTSIMILARITIES AND

DIFFERENCESDISTINGUISH BETWEEN

DIFFERENTIATEALIKE/DIFFERENT

Common Core Standard:Determine the main idea(s) and key supporting details in complex texts.

What is the main idea of _________________? What are the supporting details?

Cognitive Vocabulary:CLASSIFY

GROUP/ SORTCATEGORIZEMAIN IDEATYPES OFKINDS OF

GIVE SUFFICIENT AND RELATED DETAILS

LIST AND ELABORATETAXONOMY

DIFFERENTIATE

Common Core Standard:Understand the steps and patterns in complex processes in

order to answer questions and solve problems.

What ordered steps would you follow to solve ___________?How would you demonstrate the steps to solving __________?

Cognitive Vocabulary:

SEQUENCEPUT IN ORDER

RECOUNTRETELL

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?PATTERNS

CYCLESPROCESSES

CHANGESOLVE MULTI-STEP

PROBLEMS

Common Core Standard:Use common affixes to determine and clarify

the meaning of unfamiliar terms.

How would you analyze the structural parts of ______________ to suggest improvements?

Cognitive Vocabulary:

PART/WHOLEPARTS OF

SHOW STRUCTURETAKE APARTANATOMY PHYSICAL

COMPONENTSDECOMPOSE

What is the impact of the author’s point of view on __________?How would you evaluate the argument and claims in _________?

Cognitive Vocabulary:

CAUSE AND EFFECTDISCUSS

CONSEQUENCESWHAT WOULD HAPPEN

IF?PREDICTCHANGE

IDENTIFY MOTIVESWHY?

RESULTSOUTCOMESBENEFITS

Common Core Standard:Evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text;

Determine the impact the author’s purpose and point of view have

on a text.

Common Core Standard:Analyze the relationship between a primary and

secondary source; Analyze patterns and relationships

What is the relationship between ______and _______? How would you analyze the relationships and analogies in

_________?

Cognitive Vocabulary:

SEEING ANALOGIESIDENTIFY THE

COMMON RELATIONSHIP 

GUESS THE RULEINTERPRET SYMBOLS

SIMILEMETAPHORALLEGORY

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