Inclusive Big Ideas
Use these “Inclusive Big Ideas” to plan grade-level standards-based lessons for all students, including those with significant cognitive disabilities. Grab your colleague and start by finding the standard that you are teaching and then browse the resource to:
- Spark ideas for instructional strategies and activities
- Align lesson content and instruction while removing common barriers to student learning
- Identify essential content, concepts, and vocabulary related to standards
- Integrate cross-curricular connections and evidence-based practices that optimize engagement
Suggested Citation
- TIES Center. (2021). Inclusive Big Ideas. https://tiescenter.org/topics/inclusive-instruction/ibi
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Use details to ask and answer questions about a text
Grade 1: English Language Arts - Reading Informational Text
Standard: Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. RI.1.1
Use details to ask and answer questions about a text
Grade 1: English Language Arts - Reading Literature
Standard: Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. RL.1.1
Use details to ask and answer questions about a text
Grade 2: English Language Arts - Reading Informational Text
Standard: Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. RI.2.1
Use details to ask and answer questions about a text; Demonstrate understanding of a text
Grade 2: English Language Arts - Reading Literature
Standard: Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. RL.2.1
Use details to ask and answer questions about a text; Demonstrate literal and inferential understanding of a text
Grade 3: English Language Arts - Reading Informational Text
Standard: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. RI.3.1
Use details to ask and answer questions about a text; Demonstrate literal and inferential understanding of a text
Grade 3: English Language Arts - Reading Literature
Standard: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. RL.3.1
Use details to ask and answer literal and inferential questions about a text
Grade 4: English Language Arts - Reading Informational Text
Standard: Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. RI.4.1
Use details to ask and answer literal and inferential questions about a text
Grade 4: English Language Arts - Reading Literature
Standard: Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. RL.4.1
Cite details from the text to ask and answer literal and inferential questions
Grade 5: English Language Arts - Reading Informational Text
Standard: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. RI.5.1
Cite details from the text to ask and answer literal and inferential questions
Grade 5: English Language Arts - Reading Literature
Standard: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. RL.5.1
Cite details from the text to ask and answer literal and inferential questions
Grade 6: English Language Arts - Reading Informational Text
Standard: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. RI.6.1
Cite details from the text to ask and answer literal and inferential questions
Grade 6: English Language Arts - Reading Literature
Standard: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. RL.6.1
Cite details from the text to ask and answer literal and inferential questions
Grade 7: English Language Arts - Reading Informational Text
Standard: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. RI.7.1
Cite details from the text to ask and answer questions; Demonstrate literal and inferential understanding of a text
Grade 7: English Language Arts - Reading Literature
Standard: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. RL.7.1
Cite details from the text to ask and answer literal and inferential questions
Grade 8: English Language Arts - Reading Informational Text
Standard: Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. RI.8.1
Cite details from the text to ask and answer literal and inferential questions
Grade 8: English Language Arts - Reading Literature
Standard: Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. RL.8.1
Describe the central message or theme; Retell a text
Grade 1: English Language Arts - Reading Literature
Standard: Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson. RL.1.2
Determine the main topic of a text; Retell a text
Grade 1: English Language Arts - Reading Informational Text
Standard: Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. RI.1.2
Describe the central message or theme; Retell a text
Grade 2: English Language Arts - Reading Literature
Standard: Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral. RL.2.2
Determine the main topic of a text; Retell a text
Grade 2: English Language Arts - Reading Informational Text
Standard: Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text. RI.2.2
The Inclusive Big Ideas were adapted from resources created by the NCSC Project , a federal grant from the US Department of Education (PR/Award #: H373X100002), However, the contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the US Department of Education and no assumption of endorsement by the Federal government should be made.