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Mary - Contract Tasks for Greek Myths

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Tiered Tasks

Students read from “Hope for the Animals” by Jane Goodall

Upper tier task determine the author’s purpose for her writing

Lower tier task student’s look in more detail about the author’s claim (and find details to support)

Students come back together to discuss and share their knowledge so both cover the different areas but in different levels of detail

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Tierred Assignment

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Contracts:

Students will be given a set of 10 word problems that differ in math and written levels. Students will be required to complete 2 of those sets in class; they must be different ones in a group. Students will then have to share with each other how they solved their chosen problems.

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Engrade quiz, leveled by ESL level language.   Assign the tests to them.
Organizers with sentence stems, taking away more words and providing less sentence structure from more sophisticated to more accessible.

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Dustin - Contract Tasks for Parts of Speech

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Dustin - Contract Tasks for Parts of Speech

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Contract Task

Assignment: Parts of Speech – Students do a certain number of each – Higher levels will focus mostly on part 4.

Part 1: Identify the part of speech of a word.

Part 2: Identify the part of speech of a word in a sentence.

Part 3: Identify the words in the sentence that are a specific part of speech.

Part 4: Write sentences and identify parts of speech.

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Task: Persuasive speech on contemporary issue

More Sophisticated:
Students will choose a topic with which most people will disagree  or

Students will research a topic by reading newspaper articles

no scaffolding given

assessment criteria

Intermediate
Students will choose from a short list of topics.

Pre-selected articles

limited scaffolding - list of steps to follow

assessment criteria

More Accessible

Students will be assigned a topic based on interest ( taken from a formative assessment)

Pre-selected articles with highlighted text

Students are given specific directions or parameters for the assignment on a handout to be completed

Provide a sample speech

assessment criteria

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Idea #1:  Exit Slips can answer 1 of 3 questions - tiered by complexity of the question and depth of analysis required to answer (high, medium, low) - Would they all choose the low one?

Idea #2:  Differentiate vocabulary lists for each unit - high, medium, low (content terms would be the same, but low and medium would include more tier 2 words).