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Categorizing Classroom Activities

This document categorizes classroom activities for younger students into four quadrants based on how cognitively demanding the activities are and how much context is provided. Quadrant A includes activities that are cognitively undemanding and have context embedded, such as listening to a story. Quadrant B includes cognitively demanding activities with context embedded, like participating in a phonics lesson. Quadrant C are cognitively undemanding activities with context reduced, like talking to a friend. Quadrant D includes cognitively demanding activities with context reduced, such as describing a weekend trip to the zoo.

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Categorizing Classroom Activities

This document categorizes classroom activities for younger students into four quadrants based on how cognitively demanding the activities are and how much context is provided. Quadrant A includes activities that are cognitively undemanding and have context embedded, such as listening to a story. Quadrant B includes cognitively demanding activities with context embedded, like participating in a phonics lesson. Quadrant C are cognitively undemanding activities with context reduced, like talking to a friend. Quadrant D includes cognitively demanding activities with context reduced, such as describing a weekend trip to the zoo.

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Categorizing Classroom Activities

For teachers of younger students…

• Talking to a friend at lunch


• Carrying out common classroom procedures
• Describing a weekend trip to the zoo at circle time
• Participating in a phonics lesson on a new sound-letter relationship
• Reciting vocabulary from a word wall
• Describing classroom objects according to color, size, shape, etc.
• Reading aloud a story
• Listening to a favorite story

Cummin’s Quadrants
A C
Cognitively undemanding and context embedded Cognitively undemanding and context reduced

- Listening to a favorite story - Talking to a friend at lunch


- Describing classroom objects - Carrying out classroom procedures
- Reciting vocabulary from a word wall

B D
Cognitively demanding and context embedded Cognitively demanding and context reduced

- Reading a loud a story - Describing a weekend trip to the zoo at


- Participating in a phonics lesson circle time

Adapted from The Teachers Guide to Diversity: Building a Knowledge Base (2005) by Elise Trumbull
and Maria Pacheco

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