Formative Instructional Practices Workshop
UNPACKING THE STANDARD/LEARNING GOAL TEMPLATE
Academic Content Standard/Learning Goal: 1.NBT.3 Compare two digit numbers based on
meanings of the tens and ones digits, recording the results with symbols >, <, =.
Subject:
Numbers Base Ten
Grade: 1st
What Students Need to Know (Knowledge/Concepts)
Nouns and Noun Phrases
List Nouns/Noun Phrases: two digit number, meanings of tens and ones digits, results of
comparisons, symbols >, <, =
What Students Need to Do
Verbs and Verb Phrases
List Verbs/Verb Phrases: Compare, record with
symbols
Level of Bloom’s Taxonomy
Low: Remember and Understand
Middle: Apply and Analyze
High: Evaluate and Create
List level of Bloom’s: Middle
Consider the following:
Sequencing of learning goals: What comes in the grades before and after?
 Before: Understand place value tens/ones ; Understanding (number sense) of greater/less than
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After: Adding 2 digit numbers ; Adding 10 more; Subtracting 10 less,
Are there any vocabulary words that need to be identified/clarified in context? Digit, tens,
ones, symbols, greater than, less than, equal
What prior knowledge and skills are needed to master this learning goal? Count to 100,
structure of base ten, understand greater than and less than.
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