Planning With
the End in Mind
A Guide to a Common
Planning Session
What’s New
What’s New
What’s New
Planning Session
How To Effectively
Facilitate A Grade Level
Common Planning
Session
District Sample Planner
Must Have Planning
Documents
Item Specifications
Making the Grade
Task Cards
Pacing Guide
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
2.
LAFS.4.R1.1.2
LAFS.4.R1.1.2
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
District
Resource
Wonders
Resource
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
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
#1
#2
Open Response:
Anthology Main Selection
#5
#3
#4
Open Response:
Anthology Paired Selection
• The Living
Woodlands
#1
• Forest Food
Chain
The Living Woodlands
• Back to Cycle
All forest living things
depend on nonliving
elements.
Summary: The living woodlands food chain
begins with nonliving elements such as the
Detail: Plants get their
sun, it continues with producers that make
energy from the sun.
their own food such as grasses and trees
Detail: The plants is the
and consumers that eat producers such as
first link in the food
a mouse. It ends with decomposers that
chain.
recycle all wastes and remains from plants
Detail: Nutrients and
and animals back into the food chain.
moisture in soil also
helps plants.
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
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
The Goal
Keeping the End in Mind!!!!
Organizational
Tools with
Writing
Connection
Options:
• Graphic
Organizers
• Outline
Open
Responses
Gathered
Notes
Options:
• Marginal
Notes
• Text Coding
• Selective
Underlining/
Highlighting
The End Product- The Text Based
Writing Prompt
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?
Instructional Frameworks
Reflect
Making a difference for ALL students!!!!
Together we are a team!!!!
Teamwork!!!!!!!
All
hands
on
deck!!!!!!