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1. Common Core State Standards bring more breadth and depth by emphasizing the full range of thinking skills • Identify • List • Draw • E.g., Perform routine procedures like measuring length or using punctuation marks • Define • E.g., Support ideas with details and examples, design investigations • Memorize • Calculate • Illustrate • Who, What, When, Where, Why • Measure • Arrange • Name • Tabulate • Repeat • Match • Design • Recall • Categorize • Recognize • Use • Connect • Infer • Level One • (Recall) • Graph • Organize • Synthesize • Classify • Level Four • E.g., Conduct a project that requires specifying a problem, designing and conducting an experiment, analyzing its data, and reporting results/solutions • Level Two • (Skill/Concept) • Modify • Describe Explain Interpret • Apply Concepts • Cause/Effect • (Extended Thinking) • Relate • Critique • Predict • E.g., Identify and summarize the major events in a narrative • Prove • Level Three • (Strategic Thinking) • Compare • Analyze • Interpret • Estimate • Create • Revise • Assess • Summarize • Develop a Logical Argument • Use Concepts to SolveNon-Routine Problems • Show • Critique • Construct • Compare • Apprise • Investigate • Explain • Formulate • Draw Conclusions • Hypothesize • Differentiate Source: Webb, Norman L. and others, “Web Alignment Tool” 24 July 2005. Wisconsin Center of Educational Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2 Feb 2006