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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Explain how information from multiple representations of a topic contribute to understanding of the topic
Grade 6: English Language Arts - Reading Literature
Standard: Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they “see” and “hear” when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch. RL.6.7
Explain how information from multiple representations of a topic contribute to understanding of the topic
Grade 7: English Language Arts - Reading Literature
Standard: Compare and contrast a written story, drama, or poem to its audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia version, analyzing the effects of techniques unique to each medium (e.g., lighting, sound, color, or camera focus and angles in a film). RL.7.7
Explain how information from multiple representations of a topic contribute to understanding of the topic
Grade 8: English Language Arts - Reading Literature
Standard: Analyze the extent to which a filmed or live production of a story or drama stays faithful to or departs from the text or script, evaluating the choices made by the director or actors. RL.8.7
Identify supporting evidence
Grade 1: English Language Arts - Reading Informational Text
Standard: Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text. RI.1.8
Identify supporting evidence; Explain how evidence supports an idea or point in a text
Grade 4: English Language Arts - Reading Informational Text
Standard: Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text. RI.4.8
Identify supporting evidence; Explain how evidence supports an idea or point in a text
Grade 5: English Language Arts - Reading Informational Text
Standard: Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point(s). RI.5.8
Identify supporting evidence; Explain how evidence supports an idea or point in a text
Grade 6: English Language Arts - Reading Informational Text
Standard: Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not. RI.6.8
Evaluate supporting evidence; Explain how evidence supports an idea or point in a text
Grade 7: English Language Arts - Reading Informational Text
Standard: Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims. RI.7.8
Evaluate supporting evidence; Explain how evidence supports an idea or point in a text
Grade 8: English Language Arts - Reading Informational Text
Standard: Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced. RI.8.8
Compare and contrast elements of texts
Grade 1: English Language Arts - Reading Informational Text
Standard: Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories. RI.1.9
Compare and contrast elements of texts
Grade 1: English Language Arts - Reading Literature
Standard: Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories. RL.1.9
Compare and contrast elements of texts
Grade 2: English Language Arts - Reading Informational Text
Standard: Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures. RI.2.9
Compare and contrast elements of texts
Grade 2: English Language Arts - Reading Literature
Standard: Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures. RL.2.9
Compare and contrast elements of texts
Grade 3: English Language Arts - Reading Informational Text
Standard: Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic. RI.3.9
Compare and contrast elements of texts
Grade 3: English Language Arts - Reading Literature
Standard: Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series). RL.3.9
Compare and contrast elements of texts
Grade 4: English Language Arts - Reading Literature
Standard: Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures. RL.4.9
Integrate information from multiple texts
Grade 4: English Language Arts - Reading Informational Text
Standard: Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably. RI.4.9
Compare and contrast elements of texts
Grade 5: English Language Arts - Reading Literature
Standard: Compare and contrast stories in the same genre (e.g., mysteries and adventure stories) on their approaches to similar themes and topics. RL.5.9
Integrate information from multiple texts
Grade 5: English Language Arts - Reading Informational Text
Standard: Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably. RI.5.9
Compare and contrast elements of texts
Grade 6: English Language Arts - Reading Informational Text
Standard: Compare and contrast one author’s presentation of events with that of another (e.g., a memoir written by and a biography on the same person). RI.6.9
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.