Zachary Lane

Professional Learning
March 6, 2017
 Agenda
Grades K-2 Grades 3-5

1:00 pm Gather & Check in 1:00 pm Gather & Check in

1:10 pm Mastery Connect 1:10 pm Thinking Maps

2:10 pm Break 2:10 pm Break

2:20 pm Thinking Maps 2:20 pm Mastery Connect

3:20 March Madness 3:20 March Madness

4:00 pm Adjourn 4:00 pm Adjourn

 Thinking Maps
The purpose of Thinking Maps
 Thinking Maps
What do I want my students to know and be able to do?

K-5 Anchor Standards:

1) Key Ideas and Details

2) Craft and Structure

3) Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

4) Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

 Thinking Maps - Key Ideas and Details
What I want my students to know and be able to do:

List key ideas

List details

Use key ideas and details to comprehend text

Use Tree Map Thinking Map independently to use key ideas

and details to comprehend text

Lesson Plan Flow for Gradual Release of Thinking

 Thinking Maps - Key Ideas and Details
Priming - Whole Group
Thinking Map: Tree Map
Passage: Carter G. Woodson
Create a Tree Map to describe the
key ideas and details.
How will I know if they know the information?
Rubric
Essential Questions:
How can we determine the main idea of a text?
What topic keeps occurring in the text?
What details in the passage are related to the main idea?
Can you eliminate the sentences that do not support the main idea?
How can you organize the main idea and supporting details into a paragraph summarizing the text?
 Thinking Maps - Key Ideas and Details
Processing - Data driven small groups
Passage: Lewis Howard Latimer
Create a Tree Map to describe the
key ideas and details.
Thinking Map: Tree Map

How will I know if they know the information?

Rubric
Essential Questions:
How can we determine the main idea of a text?
What topic keeps occurring in the text?
What details in the passage are related to the main idea?
Can you eliminate the sentences that do not support the main idea?
How can you organize the main idea and supporting details into a paragraph summarizing the text?
 Thinking Maps - Key Ideas and Details
Retaining for Mastery - Independent
Passage: Madam C. J. Walker
Create a Tree Map to describe the
key ideas and details.
Thinking Map: Tree Map
How will I know if they know the information?
Rubric
Essential Questions:
How can we determine the main idea of a text?
What topic keeps occurring in the text?
What details in the passage are related to the main idea?
Can you eliminate the sentences that do not support the main idea?
How can you organize the main idea and supporting details into a paragraph summarizing the text?
 Thinking Maps - Key Ideas and Details

How will our PLC apply Tree Maps in our classrooms?

1 minute Stretch Break
Thinking Maps - Craft & Structure
What I want my students to know and be
able to do:

Analyze the structure of texts, including:

How specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger
portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter,
scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the
whole.

Use Brace Map Thinking Map independently

to analyze the structure of texts
 Thinking Maps - Craft & Structure
Priming - Whole Group
Thinking Map: Brace Map
Passage: Your Bones
Create a Brace Map to identify the
various parts of the skeletal system.

How will I know if they know the information?

Rubric
Essential Questions:
1. How is informational text organized?
2. What text features help guide a reader to look for content and how?
3. Create a plan to research a topic adequately.
 Thinking Maps - Craft & Structure
Processing - Data driven small groups
Passage: Your Hair
Create a Brace Map to analyze the

parts of your hair

Thinking Map: Brace Map

How will I know if they know the information?

Rubric
Essential Questions:
1. How is informational text organized?
2. What text features help guide a reader to look for content and how?
3. Create a plan to research a topic adequately.
 Thinking Maps - Craft & Structure
Retaining for Mastery - Independent
Passage: Your Digestive System
Construct a Brace Map to analyze
The parts of the Digestive System
Thinking Map: Brace Map

How will I know if they know the information?

Rubric
Essential Questions:
1. How is informational text organized?
2. What text features help guide a reader to look for content and how?
3. Create a plan to research a topic adequately.
 Thinking Maps - Craft & Structure

How will our PLC apply Brace Maps in our classrooms?

Break - Switch Rooms