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Instructional Cycle 1

Multiple Subject and Single Subject


Part C: Written Narrative: Lesson Plan Rationale Template

Multiple Subject and Single Subject


Step 1: Plan—Part C: Written Narrative: Lesson Plan
Rationale Template
Directions: Thinking about the student context information, including assets and learning needs for the whole
class and focus students, briefly respond to the following prompts (no more than 7 pages). Type your responses
within the brackets following each prompt. Do not delete or alter the prompts.

1. Prior Academic Knowledge: Explain how the lesson plan builds on students’ prior
academic knowledge related to the learning goal(s) selected for the lesson.
[ ]

2. Student Assets and Learning Needs: Explain how the lesson plan incorporates, affirms,
and validates students’ cultural and linguistic resources, socioeconomic backgrounds, funds
of knowledge, prior experiences, and interests related to the content of the lesson.
[ ]

3. Student Learning Activities: Explain why you selected the learning activities and how you
will engage all students in higher-order thinking (analysis, synthesis, evaluation,
interpretation, transfer) and applications of concepts or skills to purposefully advance their
understanding of the specific content (e.g., use of manipulatives, think-pair-share, models,
drawings or maps, graphic organizers, performances, demonstrations, labs).
[ ]

4. Instructional Strategies: Explain why you will use specific instructional strategies, including
UDL, and what adaptations (accommodations and/or modifications) you might make to
improve student access to learning. Describe how you will support student engagement with
the content you are teaching in this lesson (e.g., modeling, scaffolding, asking questions,
providing instructions to guide an activity).
[ ]

5. Student Grouping: Explain your rationale for grouping students in this lesson—whole class,
small group, pairs, individual—and why you think this will support student learning.
[ ]

6. Academic Language Development: How will you address the academic language
development needs of the students you are teaching, including English learners and
reclassified English learners? What vocabulary or terminology is necessary to access the
content?
[ ]

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Instructional Cycle 1
Multiple Subject and Single Subject
Part C: Written Narrative: Lesson Plan Rationale Template

7. Resources and Materials to Support Learning: Explain why you chose particular
resources and materials to support student learning and language demands in this lesson.
What is the difficulty level of text, materials, or resources needed for the lesson?
[ ]

8. Assessments: Explain how you will use informal assessments throughout the lesson to
check students’ understanding of the content taught.
[ ]

9. Developmental Considerations (e.g., social-emotional): Explain how the lesson plan and
informal assessments address the developmental considerations of your students.
[ ]

10. Focus Students: Explain how the lesson plan addresses individual assets and learning
needs of the 3 focus students, including, as appropriate, assistive technologies, and
provides inclusive learning opportunities (if relevant, may include an explanation of
additional support that occurs outside the classroom) to engage fully with the content of the
lesson, including English language development. For Focus Student 1, explain how the
lesson plan supports progress toward their ELD goal(s).

a. Focus Student 1:
[ ]

b. Focus Student 2:
[ ]

c. Focus Student 3:
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