REVISED - 8/9/2012 Willamette Curriculum Coalition
Unwrapping the Priority Standards Organizer
Course:
Unit:Writing
1st
Priority Standard: (Identify Standard Alpha-Numeric Code and write out completely)
1.W.3
Write narratives in which they RECOUNT two or more appropriately sequenced events, INCLUDE some details regarding
what happened, USE temporal words to signal event order, and PROVIDE some sense of closure.
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Identify the skills (verbs) by CAPITOLIZING AND BOLDING them.
Identify the key concepts (important nouns or noun phrases) by underlining them.
Identify the language function by highlighting them.
Webb’s Depth of
Knowledge
VERBS
(Skills, able to do)
(Need to know)
1 Recall and
Reproduction
Recount
Two or more
appropriately
sequenced events
By writing narrative pieces
Retelling, Relating Past
Events
2 Skills and
Concepts
Include
details
By writing narrative pieces
Retelling, Relating Past
Events
2 Skills and
Concepts
Use
Temporal words
By writing narrative pieces
Retelling, Relating Past
Events
2 Skills and
Concepts
Provide
closure
By writing narrative pieces
Summarize
NOUNS
Skills
ASSESSMENT CONTEXT
ACADEMIC LANGUAGE
FUNCTION
Adapted from Ainsorth, L. (2010). Rigorous curriculum design: How to create curricular units of study that align
standards, instruction and assessment. Englwood, CO: Lead+Learn Press.
Adapted from Ainsorth, L. (2010). Rigorous curriculum design: How to create curricular units of study that align
standards, instruction and assessment. Englwood, CO: Lead+Learn Press.