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 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; 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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
Describe the central message or theme; Summarize a text
Grade 3: English Language Arts - Reading Literature
Standard: Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text. RL.3.2
Describing the central message or theme
Grade 4: English Language Arts - Reading Literature
Standard: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text. RL.4.2
Describe the central message or theme; Summarize a text
Grade 5: English Language Arts - Reading Literature
Standard: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text. RL.5.2
Describe the central message or theme; Summarize a text
Grade 6: English Language Arts - Reading Literature
Standard: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments. RL.6.2
Describe the central message or theme; Summarize a text
Grade 7: English Language Arts - Reading Literature
Standard: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text. RL.7.2
Describe the central message or theme; Summarize a text
Grade 8: English Language Arts - Reading Literature
Standard: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text. RL.8.2
Use details to describe key elements of a text
Grade 1: English Language Arts - Reading Literature
Standard: Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details. RL.1.3
Describe how characters change over the course of a text
Grade 2: English Language Arts - Reading Literature
Standard: Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges. RL.2.3
Describe how characters cause change over the course of a text
Grade 3: English Language Arts - Reading Literature
Standard: Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events. RL.3.3
Describe characters, settings, or events in a text
Grade 4: English Language Arts - Reading Literature
Standard: Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions). RL.4.3
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.