1. Creating universal design FoR tier i
How to unpack the Common Core State Standards through KUDs

2. Understanding KUDs KNOW
Description
Examples
Most often represented in bullet form:
Facts
Dates
Definitions
Rules
Names of people
Places
There are fifty states.
Thomas Jefferson
1492
The Continental Divide
Multiplication tables
Rules of soccer
Primary colors
Strickland, C.A. (2009). Professional development for differentiating instruction. Alexandria: VA: ASCD.

3. Understanding KUDs: UNDERSTAND
Definition
Examples
Best stated, “ I want students to understand that…”
Big ideas
Essential understandings
Principles
“Point” of a discipline
Multiplication is another way to do addition.
People migrate to meet basic needs.
System parts are integrated.
Writers use tools to shape their craft.
Strickland, C.A. (2009). Professional development for differentiating instruction. Alexandria: VA: ASCD.

4. Understanding KUDs: DO
Definition
Examples
Skills of a discipline, including basic skills
Communication
Thinking (analytical, critical, creative)
Planning
Evaluating
Analyze a text for meaning.
Solve a problem to find perimeter.
Write a self-supporting argument.
Contribute to the success of a group.
Sort buttons into two poles.
Strickland, C.A. (2009). Professional Development for differentiating instruction. Alexandria: VA: ASCD

5. Example ELA & Literacy CCSS
Grade 2
Grade 7
Grade 12
CC.2.RL.2
Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
CC.7.RL.9
Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history.
CC RI.
Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness, or beauty of the text.

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