Planning With the End in MindA Guide to a Common Planning Session

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How To Effectively Facilitate A Grade Level

Common Planning Session

Planning Session

District Sample Planner

Item Specifications

Making the Grade

Task Cards

Pacing Guide

Must Have Planning Documents

Sources

Levels of Meaning

A photographer documents the animals in a coral reef and how they depend on each other. The text discusses how living things are connected and how the removal of a specific animal could affect other living things in their environment.

Instructional Focus

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LAFS.4. RI 1.2 Main Idea

LAFS.4.R1.1.2 – Determine the Main Idea

Main idea is the most important idea that an author presents in a paragraph or section of text. Key detail give important information to support the main idea.

Instructional Tools Main Idea Standard

Wonders Resource

District Resource

Planning with the End in Mind

Text Based Writing Prompt

You have read three text about how living things are connected. Write an informative

essay about how living things are connected and discuss how the removal of a specific animal could affect

other living things in the environment. Use information from the texts in your essay.

Academic/Domain Specific Language

Open Response: RWW

• Connections• Coral

Bleaching• Balancing Act

The main idea of Rescuing the Reefs is that animals and plants in the coral reef depend on each other.

Open Response: Anthology Main

Selection

The Buffalo Are Back• The American

Indians• The Buffalo• The Grass• The Prairie

Comeback

Part A: The main idea of The Buffalo Are Back is that life in the plains was closely connected but the prairie changed when settlers came however the buffalo and grasses were reintroduced and the prairie was saved.Part B: Roosevelt established the National Bison Range in Montana and made it illegal to shoot buffalo. Over the years, more land was set aside in western states for the great grazing herds, which were beginning to grow.

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Open Response: Anthology Main

Selection

Open Response: Anthology Paired

Selection

The Living Woodlands

All forest living things depend on nonliving elements.

Detail: Plants get their energy from the sun.

Detail: The plants is the first link in the food chain.

Detail: Nutrients and moisture in soil also helps plants.

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• The Living Woodlands

• Forest Food Chain

• Back to Cycle

Summary: The living woodlands food chain begins with nonliving elements such as the sun, it continues with producers that make their own food such as grasses and trees and consumers that eat producers such as a mouse. It ends with decomposers that recycle all wastes and remains from plants and animals back into the food chain.

Text Based Writing Prompt

Source 1

Source 2

The Living Woodlands

All forest living things depend on nonliving elements.

Detail: Plants get their energy from the sun.

Detail: The plants is the first link in the food chain.

Detail: Nutrients and moisture in soil also helps plants.

Source 3

Text Based Writing Prompt: You have read three text about how living things are connected. Write an informative essay about how living things are connected and discuss how the removal of a specific animal could affect other living things in the environment. Use information from the texts in your essay.

Keeping the End in Mind!!!!

Organizational Tools with Writing ConnectionOptions: • Graphic

Organizers• Outline

Open Responses

Gathered NotesOptions:• Marginal

Notes• Text

Coding• Selective

Underlining/Highlighting

The End Product- The Text Based Writing Prompt

The Goal

Digital ToolsBased on the “Concept” your

lessons will be addressing, what digital tools can you bring in to

enhance your lesson?

Connections Among Living Things

Video from NBC Learn

Which sentence best summarizes the presentation?

Instructional Frameworks

Making a difference for ALL students!!!!

Reflect

Teamwork!!!!!!!

All hands

on deck!!!

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Together we are a team!!!!