1. Pre-Game Sheet- Back Pre-Game Sheet - Front
This is a professional development game for educators (not students) led by a facilitator.
Game Supplies List:
Note: do not hand out the DOK DOTS or Question Cards until AFTER the Pre-Game Activity.
Each participant will need a copy of the Pre-Game Sheet.
Each team (4 pr. Team) will need…
…one set of DOK DOTS.
…one set of Questions Cards.
Game Rules
Pre-Game Activity
Read DOK level Descriptors
Read the Story (Facilitator Models how to “find questions” while reading) and
think about possible questions you could ask students at different DOK Levels.
Participants discuss question ideas and the different DOK levels.
The Game Rules
Divide participants into teams of 4 players each.
Hand out one set of DOK DOTS and one set of Question Cards per team.
Lay the Question Cards with the Question Side Up, in a stack.
Spread out the three sets of DOK DOTS.
The person with (i.e., the birthday earliest in the year goes first, then so on).
The person reads the first Question Card from the stack to the team. The reader MUST NOT allow the back of the card to be seen – read the question card with it lying flat.
The team comes to a consensus of the DOK level of the question.
After a consensus is reached, the reader checks the answer on the back of the card.
If the team was correct – place the Question Card under the DOK DOT set in which it belongs.
If the team was incorrect – place the Question Card aside.
Continue with all cards.
When all cards have been played, review the Question Cards that were set aside, discuss and then place under the correct DOK DOT set in which it belongs.
DOK-1
Reporter
DOK-1 ONE STEP
Key Details, Facts, Words, Terms, Events acts . These can stand alone as sources of information. They require the skills of recalling, locating, reading, defining and recognizing. These questions or tasks require students to go to the source or recall information and are one –step DOK-1 questions. Students do one thing. The answer is either right or wrong.
DOK-3 THREE STEPS
Evidence, Quotes, Examples, References, Word Choices, Points of View, Bias, Purpose., New Problems, Conclusions, Generalizations, Conjectures. These concepts move students into reasoning. They require the skills of explaining, generalizing, connecting, describing the effects of, solving and interpreting. DOK-3, three -step questions are asking students to (1) explain “HOW” the two-step questions are connected [how are the key details helping us identify the main idea? How do the illustrations in the text contribute more to the story?] (2) show how they solved the question using words, pictures, graphic organizers and (3) draw and justify a conclusion.
DOK-2 TWO STEPS
Cause and Effect, Results, Relationships, Concepts, Ideas. These are not stand alone concepts. They are broader. They require the skills of specifying, explaining, showing, summarizing, logically inferring, identifying, predicting and showing explicit generalizations using two-steps (1) locating and selecting those stand-alone pieces of information (DOK-1 facts, terms, words, etc…) to (2) identify and verify the correct answer. The answer is still either right or wrong.
DOK-2
Interpreter
DOK-3
Judge
DOK-2 Example:
What is an important fact about spiders?
What is the main idea of the story?
DOK-3 Example:
What character traits did Goldilocks have that contributed to the sequence of events?

2. A bunch of golden keys is mine To make each day with gladness shine.
Supply List:
Golden Keys
A bunch of golden keys is mine
To make each day with gladness shine.
"Good morning!" that's the golden key
That unlocks every door for me.
When evening comes, "Good night!" I say,
And close the door of each glad day.
When at the table "If you please"
I take from off my bunch of keys.
When friends give anything to me,
I'll use the little "Thank you" key.
"Excuse me," "Beg your pardon," too,
When by mistake some harm I do.
Or if unkindly harm I've given,
With "Forgive me" key I'll be forgiven.
On a golden ring these keys I'll bind,
This is its motto: "Be ye kind.“
I'll often use each golden key,
And so a happy child I'll be.
Pre-Game Sheet
1 Set of Question Cards
1 Set of DOK DOTS

3. What does the child say the golden keys will make him be? Question:
The central theme of the poem is that manners are important. Write a paragraph explaining the key points that support this theme. Use details from the poem to support your response.
Question:
In a few sentences, explain what lesson the reader can learn from the poem Golden Keys. Use details from the poem to support your response. Q3 Q4
Question:
What does the child say the golden keys will make him be?
Question:
What are the golden keys a symbol of?

4. STRATEGIZE and show HOW to SOLVE -CONCLUDE then EXPLAIN my THINKING
Question:
In a few sentences, explain what lesson the reader can learn
from the poem Golden Keys. Use details from the poem to
support your response.
Answer: DOK-3
Standard RL.3 Three-Step Question
DOK-3
Judge A1
Question:
The central theme of the poem is that manners are important. Write a paragraph explaining the key points that support this theme. Use details from the poem to support your response.
Answer: DOK-2
Standard RL.2 Two-Step Question
DOK-2
Interpreter
Locate/Select
and Identify/Verify TO
STRATEGIZE and show HOW to SOLVE -CONCLUDE
AND
then EXPLAIN my THINKING
Step 1
Student selects- verifies prior information…
locate details to show what a reader could learn from the poem).
Step 2
…in order to strategize and show how to solve the question ( a rule could be that good manners make you happy ) a fact could be that the child is happy when using manners and a conclusion could be that children may be happier when using good manners.
Step 3
---student can then explain and justify his/her thinking (if good manners makes people happy then children who are taught or use good manners will also be happy!)
Locate and Select
TO…
Identify and Verify
(concept#1) Key Details
Step 1
Student must (1) identify key points to support the theme (manners are important).
(concept #2) Central Theme
Step 2
In order to… (2) verify that manners are important and is the theme! A4 A3
Question:
What are the golden keys a symbol of?
Answer: DOK-2
Standard RL.2 Two-Step Question
DOK-2
Interpreter
Question: What does the child say the golden keys will make him be?
Answer: DOK-1
Standard RL.1 One-Step Question
DOK-1
Reporter
Locate and Select
TO…
Identify and Verify
(concept#1) Key Details
Step 1
Student must (1) identify key details to support what the golden keys symbolize.
(concept #2) Central Idea
Step 2
In order to… (2) verify what the golden keys symbolize.
Show Me – Tell Me
(concept #1) Key Details
Explanation:
Student can find this information explicitly in the text. “I'll often use each golden key,
And so a happy child I'll be.”

5. Which key unlocks the day and which closes it? Question:
How does the child in the poem relate to the golden keys? Q7 Q8
Question:
If the golden keys were a character in the poem, what kind of friend would they be to the child?
Question:
Summarize the poem.

6. TO… STRATEGIZE and show HOW to SOLVE -CONCLUDE Show Me – Tell Me
Question: How does the child in the poem relate to the golden keys?
Answer: DOK-3
Standard RL.3 Three-Step Question
Question: Which key unlocks the day and which closes it?
Answer: DOK-1
Standard RL.1 One-Step Question
DOK-1
Reporter
I Locate/Select
and Identify/Verify TO
STRATEGIZE and show HOW to SOLVE -CONCLUDE
AND
then EXPLAIN my THINKING
Step 1
Student selects- verifies prior information…
(selects details about the keys that verify how the child feels about the keys).
Step 2
…in order to strategize and show how to solve the question ( a rule could be that the keys are used to remind someone of good manner words) a fact could be that some words are good manner words and a conclusion could be that the child in the poem uses good manner words.
Step 3
---student can then explain and justify his/her thinking
( The child in the poem relates to the keys because when he needs a good manners word, the keys remind him).
Show Me – Tell Me
(concept #1) Key Details
Explanation:
Student can find this information explicitly in the text. "Good morning!" that's the golden key
That unlocks every door for me.
When evening comes, "Good night!" I say,
And close the door of each glad day.”
DOK-3
Judge A7 A8
Question: If the golden keys were a character in the poem, what kind of friend would they be to the child?
Answer: DOK-3
Standard RL.3 Three-Step Question
Question: Summarize the poem.
Answer: DOK-2
Standard RL.2 Two Step Question
Locate/Select
and Identify/Verify TO
STRATEGIZE and show HOW to SOLVE -CONCLUDE
AND
then EXPLAIN my THINKING
Step 1
Student selects- verifies prior information…
(selects details about the keys that verify their character).
Step 2
…in order to strategize and show how to solve the question ( a rule could be that the keys would be a polite friend) a fact could be that the golden keys only use good mannered words so I could conclude that the keys would be a polite friend that uses good manners.
Step 3
---student can then explain and justify his/her thinking
( The golden keys have the character traits of being polite and kind so I think they’d be a good friend that uses nice words and is very considerate ).
Locate and Select
TO…
Identify and Verify
(concept #1):Key Details
Step 1
Student must (1) identify Key Details …
(i.e., details about the golden key “words,” and the child).
(concept #2) Summarizing
Step 2
In order to… (2) summarize the poem.
(I.e., in some way summarize how the good mannered words help the child through the day and to have a great day.)
DOK-2
Interpreter
DOK-3
Judge

7. DOK-1 DOK-1 SHOW ME TELL ME SHOW ME TELL ME Recall and Reproduce

8. SELECT SELECT SELECT IDENTIFY and VERIFY IDENTIFY and VERIFY
I can LOCATE and
SELECT
Information or details…
DOK-2
Skills and Concepts
In order to…
IDENTIFY and
VERIFY
a new concept.
Information or details…
SELECT
I can LOCATE and
Skills and Concepts
DOK-2
a new concept.
IDENTIFY and
VERIFY
In order to…
I can LOCATE and
SELECT
Information or details…
DOK-2
Skills and Concepts
In order to…
IDENTIFY and
VERIFY
a new concept.

9. EXPLAIN THINKING EXPLAIN THINKING
I can
LOCATE and SELECT
information and details
to IDENTIFY and VERIFY
a new concept…
...which I use to show my
REASONING so I can show HOW I
SOLVED and CONCLUDED
the question
and then I
EXPLAIN my
THINKING
DOK-3
Strategic Thinking and Reasoning
I can
LOCATE and SELECT
information and details
to IDENTIFY and VERIFY
a new concept…
...which I use to show my
REASONING so I can show HOW I
SOLVED and CONCLUDED
the question
and then I
EXPLAIN my
THINKING
DOK-3
Strategic Thinking and Reasoning