Unit Planning: Subject _____________________ Grade___________

Contents
Step 1: Standards Review............................................................................................................................................................................................ 2
Step 2: Assessment Items............................................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Step 3: What is the plan for initial learning? Calendarize the Unit.............................................................................................................................4
Step 4: Build common formatives for prioritized standards........................................................................................................................................5
Step 5 & Beyond: Analyze Common Formatives..........................................................................................................................................................6
Step 6: Summative Assessment Analysis..................................................................................................................................................................... 7

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 Unit Planning: Subject _____________________ Grade___________

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Step 1: Standards Review [Plan with curriculum map and learning maps in hand]
What do students need to know?
Standards [Bold prioritized standards] Prerequisite Skills Academic Vocabulary Common Misconceptions Manipulatives, Technology,
Is the standard repeated in an earlier or later unit? What What are the essential What is the academic Where might students Models & Other resources
conceptual understandings are needed for mastery of the skills that should be vocabulary (tier 3 struggle? What What are instructional
standard? mastered in order to vocabulary) required misconceptions might strategies for teachers to
be successful with this for students to know? students have with this consider? How can
standard? Where standard? technology be used to
might I need to enhance learning?
accelerate learning?

Standard:

Prerequisite Skills
What are the essential skills that
should be mastered in order to be
successful with this standard? Where
might I need to accelerate learning?
Academic Vocabulary
What is the academic vocabulary (tier 3
vocabulary) required for students to know?
Common Misconceptions
Where might students struggle? What
misconceptions might students have
with this standard?
Manipulatives, Technology, Models &
Other resources
What are instructional strategies for
teachers to consider? How can technology
be used to enhance learning?

Standard:

Prerequisite Skills
What are the essential skills that
should be mastered in order to be
successful with this standard? Where
might I need to accelerate learning?
Academic Vocabulary
What is the academic vocabulary (tier 3
vocabulary) required for students to know?
Common Misconceptions
Where might students struggle? What
misconceptions might students have
with this standard?
Manipulatives, Technology, Models &
Other resources
What are instructional strategies for
teachers to consider? How can technology
be used to enhance learning?

Standard:

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Prerequisite Skills
What are the essential skills that
should be mastered in order to be
successful with this standard? Where
might I need to accelerate learning?
Standard:
Prerequisite Skills
What are the essential skills that
should be mastered in order to be
successful with this standard? Where
might I need to accelerate learning?
Standard:
Prerequisite Skills
What are the essential skills that
should be mastered in order to be
successful with this standard? Where
might I need to accelerate learning?
Standard:
Prerequisite Skills
What are the essential skills that
should be mastered in order to be
successful with this standard? Where
might I need to accelerate learning?
Unit Planning: Subject _____________________ Grade___________
Academic Vocabulary
What is the academic vocabulary (tier 3
vocabulary) required for students to know?
Academic Vocabulary
What is the academic vocabulary (tier 3
vocabulary) required for students to know?
Academic Vocabulary
What is the academic vocabulary (tier 3
vocabulary) required for students to know?
Academic Vocabulary
What is the academic vocabulary (tier 3
vocabulary) required for students to know?
Common Misconceptions
Where might students struggle? What
misconceptions might students have
with this standard?
Common Misconceptions
Where might students struggle? What
misconceptions might students have
with this standard?
Common Misconceptions
Where might students struggle? What
misconceptions might students have
with this standard?
Common Misconceptions
Where might students struggle? What
misconceptions might students have
with this standard?
Manipulatives, Technology, Models &
Other resources
What are instructional strategies for
teachers to consider? How can technology
be used to enhance learning?
Manipulatives, Technology, Models &
Other resources
What are instructional strategies for
teachers to consider? How can technology
be used to enhance learning?
Manipulatives, Technology, Models &
Other resources
What are instructional strategies for
teachers to consider? How can technology
be used to enhance learning?
Manipulatives, Technology, Models &
Other resources
What are instructional strategies for
teachers to consider? How can technology
be used to enhance learning?
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Standard:
Prerequisite Skills
What are the essential skills that
should be mastered in order to be
successful with this standard? Where
might I need to accelerate learning?
Standard:
Prerequisite Skills
What are the essential skills that
should be mastered in order to be
successful with this standard? Where
might I need to accelerate learning?
Unit Planning: Subject _____________________ Grade___________
Academic Vocabulary
What is the academic vocabulary (tier 3
vocabulary) required for students to know?
Academic Vocabulary
What is the academic vocabulary (tier 3
vocabulary) required for students to know?
Common Misconceptions
Where might students struggle? What
misconceptions might students have
with this standard?
Common Misconceptions
Where might students struggle? What
misconceptions might students have
with this standard?
Manipulatives, Technology, Models &
Other resources
What are instructional strategies for
teachers to consider? How can technology
be used to enhance learning?
Manipulatives, Technology, Models &
Other resources
What are instructional strategies for
teachers to consider? How can technology
be used to enhance learning?
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Step 2: Assessment Items [Discuss with Unit assessment in hand]

How will we know that they know it?
*K-2 reading should decide how they will summatively assess their students.
Standards How is each standard assessed on the Unit Assessment?
• How does the content and rigor of the item/test compare to what we have done
in the past?
• Is there any Tier 1 vocabulary on the test students might not know?

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Step 3: What is the plan for initial learning? Calendarize the Unit [Plan with district pacing in hand]
Group and sequence learning targets

Create a balanced assessment calendar with assessment dates and analysis dates

ELA:

Week 1 Heggerty:
95 Phonics:
Wonders:
Week 2 Heggerty:
95 Phonics:
Wonders:
Week 3 Heggerty:
95 Phonics:
Wonders:
Week 4 Heggerty:
95 Phonics:
Wonders:
Week 5 Heggerty:
95 Phonics:
Wonders:
Week 6 Heggerty:
95 Phonics:
Wonders:

Math: [Will be copied from the district pacing guidance]

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Step 4: Build common formatives for prioritized standards [Plan with learning map in hand]
How will you measure the level of mastery of students to plan for enrichment or acceleration?
 Look at resources you may want to use for common formatives:
o Illuminate
o iReady Standards Mastery Assessments
o McGraw Hill
o Inspire Science
o Gallopade
o Units of Study
 Determine assessment item types
o Selected response
o Constructed Response
o Extended Constructed Response
o Performance Task
o Personal Communication

Prioritized Standards in Upcoming Unit • Link or upload common formative assessment

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Step 5 & Beyond: Analyze Common Formatives (ongoing during the unit) [Discuss with common formative in hand]
How will we know if students have learned?
How will we respond when students don't learn?
How will we extend learning for those who have learned?
*In your weekly plans, document which students will be enriched and which will be re-taught during small group instruction.
Optional Standards Based Assessment Data Protocol

Common Assessment Analysis

Data Collection:
*Use the data collection tool of your grade level’s choice to capture student assessment data prior to completing the Common Assessment Analysis below. If
data is not captured within this document, upload documents under the FILES tab in the 2021-2022 Data Talk Folder in your grade level TEAMS channel.
Assessment: Patterns of strength Plan for enrichment (What Patterns of weaknesses Plan for re-teaching weaknesses (What
do we do if they already do we do if they don’t know it? What
know it?) specific strategies or materials will you
use to grow student understanding? What
will your small group instruction look
like?)

Small Group Instruction: Group Students by need- Which students need which kind of support?

[This might be a tool you copy and paste into your individual weekly plans

Enrichment: On Track: Re-Teach:

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Step 6: Summative Assessment Analysis

How do we know that they know it?

*K-2 Reading: Based on how you chose to summatively assess students, analyze your data accordingly.

Each teacher enters their data prior to the PLC meeting. *[All teachers should share data including special ed and accelerated teachers of the
grade level below]

PLC discusses at data analysis meeting.

In STANDARD write the standard

In the STANDARD column list % Mastered/% Not Mastered
As a PLC, determine which standards need to be retaught?
Are any of the standards, taught again?
Are any of the standards prerequisites for other standards?
Teacher Overall Standard…. Standard…. Standard…. Standard….
Average % Mastered % Not % Mastered % Not % Mastered % Not % Mastered % Not
% Mastered Mastered Mastered Mastered

Things to note for next year:

What did you notice about how students mastered the standards? Are there any instructional strategies you might need to change?

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