1. Teacher(s): Time: The Course Organizer Student: Course Dates: This Course: Course Questions: is about Course Standards: 1 3 Type your course title here Click here to type your course paraphrase which includes the “critical ideas” of the course Click here to type the “course questions” that you expect every student in the class to able to answer. Remember: “How” questions are more thought provoking than “What” questions. Course Assessments: EALR’s Assessed Not applicable at this time

2. Community Principles Learning Rituals Course Map This Course: includes Performance Options Student: Critical Concepts Learned in these Units 5 4 6 7 8 Your Course Title Here Click here to type your course learning rituals, routines, and methods of feedback for students. Click here to type your expectations for students regarding general tone of your classroom. Click here to type your modifications for performance options. Click here to type the important concepts that you are going to teach. Type the titles of your units in these boxes. To add more boxes…. Simply highlight one of the boxes… Select copy from the edit menu above…. And move the box where you want it. To remove a box, click on it and hit delete.

3. NAME DATE The Unit Organizer BIGGER PICTURE LAST UNIT/Experience CURRENT UNIT NEXT UNIT/Experience UNIT SELF-TEST QUESTIONS is about... UNIT RELATIONSHIPS Student Activities or Assignments UNIT MAP CURRENT UNIT 1 32 4 5 6 7 8 Click here to list the activities or assignments your students will complete in this unit. Type the preceding unit here Type the name of this unit here Type your course title here Type the following unit here Paraphrase your unit in student friendly terms here Related pg. #’s here (if any) Type relationships that might be found within this unit here. Write questions that students should be able to answer when the unit is complete here. Use these boxes to illustrate your content map. As before, select a box and choose copy from the edit menu above... Then drag the box where you want it, and type in the new information.

4. NAME DATE The Unit Organizer NEW UNIT SELF-TEST QUESTIONS Expanded Unit Map is about... 9 10 Click and type your unit paraphrase here Add your unit subjects here. Highlight and choose copy from the edit menu to make more boxes like this. Type a unit question here…... Type your unit title here

5. UNIT or BACKGROUND DATE:________ NAME:__________________ LESSON ORGANIZER RelationshipsLESSON TOPICTask-Related Strategies 4 123 5 is about... Lesson Map 6 78 Challenge Question Self-Test QuestionsTasks: Click and type 1 or 2 words for main idea here Relationship words here (pg. 34) Student strategy here (pg. 35) Specify which unit this lesson came from here Type unit concept here Paraphrase what the lesson topic is about here Type lesson concept here linking word Type a question that will spark discussion and stimulate background knowledge here 1. Type question that students can ask themselves here 2. Type question that students can ask themselves here 1. List activity or assignment that students will complete here 2. List activity or assignment that students will complete here Don’t forget to draw an arrow from the unit concept to the lesson concept down below-then delete this box EALR’s: List EALR’s MEASURED by this lesson here

6. Key Words 3 1 CONVEY CONCEPT 2 OFFER OVERALL CONCEPT 3 NOTE KEY WORDS 4 CLASSIFY CHARACTERISTICS CONCEPT DIAGRAM 2 1 Always PresentSometimes PresentNever Present 5 EXPLORE EXAMPLES Examples:Non-examples: 6 7 PRACTICE WITH NEW EXAMPLES TIE DOWN A DEFINITION Target Concept here Overall Concept here Always Characteristics here Never Characteristics here Sometimes Characteristics here key word Type examples here Type nonexamples here type examples to be tested here Type a complete sentence that contains the name of the target concept, name of overall concept and the “always characteristics” that must be present in all members of the concept class and any unusual rule that defines the relationship among the characteristics.

7. CONCEPT 1 COMPARISON TABLE 2 OVERALL CONCEPT CONCEPT 1 CHARACTERISTICS 3 3 EXTENSIONS 9 LIKE CHARACTERISTICS 4 UNLIKE CHARACTERISTICS 6 6 LIKE CATEGORIES 5 UNLIKE CATEGORIES 7 SUMMARY 8 Communicate targeted concepts Obtain the Overall Concept Make lists of known characteristics Pin down Like Characteristics Assemble Like Categories Record Unlike Characteristics Identify Unlike Categories Nail down a summary Go beyond the basics COMPARINGCOMPARING Overall concept to be explored in this lesson concept to be explored characteristic of concept like characteristics like categories here unlike characteristics Extension activity or question here- something that checks student understanding and gives them a chance to apply their knowledge of the concepts unlike categories here Type a written summary of the students’ understanding of the similarities and differences between the concepts here

8. DATE:________ NAME:_____________UNIT: _____________________________ ANCHORING TABLE Known Concept 2 Characteristics of a Known Concept 4 Characteristics Shared 65 13 7 New Concept Characteristics of a New Concept Understanding of the New Concept Known Information ANCHORS Linking Steps: 1. Announce the New Concept 2. Name Known Concept 3. Collect Known Information 4. Highlight Characteristics of Known Concept 5. Observe Characteristics of New Concept 6. Reveal Characteristics Shared 7. State Understanding of New Concept Type the word or phrase that represents the new concept here Type the word or phrase that represents the known concept here known information Type characteristic of known concept here Type characteristic of new concept here Type characteristic of known concept here Type shared characteristics of both concepts here Type sentence(s) that represents the students’ understanding of the new concept here.

9. details Write so what statement here Essential details Key Topic is about… Main idea So What? (What’s important to understand about this? Main idea Essential details Write key topic here Finish paraphrase here Write your main idea here details

10. Essential details is about… Main idea So What? (What’s important to understand about this? Key Topic Write key topic here Finish paraphrase here Write your main idea here Write so what statement here Write essential details here

11. Write so what statement here Essential details is about… Main idea So What? (What’s important to understand about this? Key Topic Write your main idea here Write key topic here Finish paraphrase here