Little Red Riding Hood & Cognitive Rigor
Revised Bloom’s
Taxonomy
Remember
Understand
Apply
Analyze
Evaluate
Create
Webb’s DOK 1
Recall &
Reproduction
Webb’s DOK 2
Skills &
Concepts
Webb’s DOK 3
Strategic
Thinking/
Reasoning
Webb’s DOK 4
Extending
Thinking
Revised Bloom’s
Taxonomy
Webb’s DOK 1
Recall &
Reproduction
Remember
What color was Red’s cape?
Where was Little Red Riding
Hood going?
What did the wolf do to trick
Little Read Riding Hood?
How did the story end?
Understand
Who was the main
character?
What was the story’s
setting?
Webb’s DOK 2
Skills &
Concepts
Webb’s DOK 4
Extending
Thinking
Retell or summarize the
story in your own words.
Apply
Identify transitional words
and phrases that helped
you to know the sequence
of events in the story.
Analyze
What are some examples of
personification used in the
story?
What is the same and
different about your
grandmother’s house and the
house in the story?
Are all wolves (in literature)
like the world in the story?
Support your response using
evidence from other texts.
What is the opinion about
the intelligence of the wolf?
Justify using details/
evidence from the story.
Evaluate
Create
Webb’s DOK 3
Strategic
Thinking/
Reasoning
Write a telephone
conversation between Little
Red Riding Hood and her
mother that explains the
wolf incident.
English Language Arts Depth of Knowledge Examples
DOK Level 1
DOK Level 2
The purpose of this level is to ensure students factual
information.
• Read orally and located and recall details
• Demonstrate an understanding of the elements of fiction by
describing character, setting, plot, sequence of events, and
identifying figurative language
• Use basic reference materials to locate information
Students should be able to understand and identify attributes.
• At the beginning of a lesson on persuasive writing, students
can be introduced to the elements of persuasion using
advertisements from TV, radio, billboards, magazines,
brochures, flyers, editorials and letters to the editor.
• Using two-column notes, list the elements of persuasion in
the left-hand column and using the teacher’s models
provided, define and describe them in the right-hand
column.
DOK Level 3
DOK Level 4