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A task or exercise that students are asked to do-often as part of a lesson plan or other larger unit of instruction-to help them develop particular skills, knowledge, or habits of mind. Usually, the goals and outcomes are broad.

• Classifying
  Classification is an important thinking/reasoning slill. This PDF file provides steps to create a student performance task requiring classifying, tips for teaching any discrete thinking skill, and questions to use in teaching students to classify ideas, objects, and events.
• Compare and Contrast - A Sample Activity
  Semantic feature analysis uses charts and grids to help students explore how related words differ from one another. By analyzing semantic features of words, students can master important concepts that will help expand their vocabulary and help them understand words essential to learning concepts in content areas.