DOK Task Cards Use these easy to read task cards to help with questioning your students across the curriculum. Each card gives DOK “buzz words” so you can make sure you are differentiating for all the levels of students in your room. Suggested activities at the bottom of the page make it easy to incorporate into your weekly lesson plans or to assign a lesson on the spot. Post in your room so both teacher and students are surrounded by the academic vocabulary. Soon your students will be using these terms too!

DOK Level One

Level One Activities

Recall elements and details of story structure, such as sequence of events, character, plot, and setting.

Conduct basic calculations.

Label locations on a map.

Perform routine procedures like measuring length or using punctuation marks correctly.

Describe the features of a place or people.

Represent in words or diagrams a scientific concept or relationship.

Arrange Calculate Define Draw Identify

Label Illustrate Measure Report Quote

Use Name Memorize Tell State

Recall Repeat Where Who What

When Why List Match Recite

DOK Level Two

Level Two Activities

Identify and summarize the major events in a narrative.

Use context clues to identify the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Solve routine multiple-step problems.

Describe the cause/effect of a particular event.

Identify patterns in events or behavior.

Formulate a routine problem given data and conditions.

Organize, represent and interpret data.

Infer Categorize Collect and Display

Construct Modify Predict Interpret

Distinguish Relate Summarize Estimate

Classify Separate Use Context Clues

Cause/Effect Identify Patterns

Compare Organize Show Graph

DOK Level Three

Level Three Activities

Support ideas with details and examples.

Use voice appropriate to the purpose and audience.

Identify research questions and design investigations for a scientific problem.

Develop a scientific model for a complex situation

Determine the author’s purpose and describe how it affects the interpretation of a reading selection.

Apply a concept in other contexts.

Revise Apprise Assess Formulate

Critique Hypothesize Cite Evidence Compare

Differentiate Explain phenomena in terms of concepts

Investigate Construct Draw Conclusions

Develop a logical argument

Use Concepts to solve non-routine problems

DOK Level Four

Level Four Activities

Conduct a project that requires specifying a problem, designing and conducting an experiment, analyzing its data, and reporting results and solutions

Apply mathematical model to illuminate a problem or situation.

Analyze and synthesize information from multiple sources.

Describe and illustrate how common themes are found across texts from different cultures.

Design a mathematical model to inform and solve a practical or abstract situation.

Design Connect Synthesize

Apply Concepts Prove

Critique Analyze Create