Planning With the End in Mind

1. Planning With the End in Mind A Guide to a Common Planning Session

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5. Planning Session How To Effectively Facilitate A Grade Level Common Planning Session

6. District Sample Planner

7. Must Have Planning Documents Item Specifications Making the Grade Task Cards Pacing Guide Sources

8. 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.

9. Instructional Focus 2. LAFS.4.R1.1.2 LAFS.4. RI 1.2 Main Idea LAFS.4.R1.1.2

10. 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.

11. Instructional Tools Main Idea Standard District Resource Wonders Resource

12. 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.

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14. 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.

15. Open Response: Anthology Main Selection 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. • The Buffalo Are Back • The American Indians • The Buffalo • The Grass • The Prairie Comeback

16. Open Response: Anthology Main Selection #1 #2 #5 #4 #3

17. Open Response: Anthology Paired Selection • The Living Woodlands • Forest Food Chain • Back to Cycle #1 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.

18. Text Based Writing Prompt 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. Source 2 Source 1 Source 3

19. The Goal Keeping the End in Mind!!!! • Organizational Tools with Writing Connection • Options: • Graphic Organizers • Outline • Gathered Notes • Options: • Marginal Notes • Text Coding • Selective Underlining/Highlighting Open Responses The End Product- The Text Based Writing Prompt

20. Digital Tools Based 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?

21. Instructional Frameworks

22. Reflect Making a difference for ALL students!!!!

23. Together we are a team!!!! Teamwork!!!!!!! All hands on deck!!!!!!