1. CRISS Learning Plan: Model Lesson
Enduring Understandings
Process understanding: To assist students in applying CRISS Principles and Philosophy to their own learning To guide students’ use of transformation strategies before, during, and after reading.
Content understanding: Write a sentence in the read, write, talk notebook about what you have read. (Student thinking)
Examples of complex texts: Junior Great Books, Science books, Social Studies books, biographies, nonfiction

2. CRISS Learning Plan: Model Lesson
2. Preparing for Understanding
Mind Streaming
Double-Entry Reflective Journals
3. Engaging Students with Content and Transforming Information
Read-and-Say-Something
Picture Notes
Essay Test

3. Three-Minute Pause
In order to learn and remember information, we have to stop and take it in; otherwise information will flow through our minds without sticking!

4. Introduction, Modeling, and Reflection
Students pause while reading, watching a video, or listening to a lecture and turn to their partner or group to: summarize what they have learned, identify something they found particularly interesting and to ask any questions about confusing information and to make a prediction about what they might learn next.
Stop and think (Write a reflection)

5. Questions
Make sure to keep CRISS strategies in your lesson plans and encourage your students to use them to engage their thinking!