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Support Materials: CRISS Strategic Learning Plans

1. A CSLP TEMPLATE

• CSLP Blank Template--WORD document
  Easy format. Please include specific instructions so others can replicate your lesson. Also include examples of blackline masters and student work.

A CSLP DESIGN GUIDE AND MODELS

• CSLP Design Guide
  This guide provides teachers with prompts and specific questions to assist in the design of CRISS Strategic Learning Plans.
• CSLP Model with Teacher Notes
  This HS Literature Novel Study CSLP includes notes regarding lesson design consideration and post-implementation notes. This model is meant to provide teachers and trainers designing CSLPs with a guide to the kinds of thinking that go into learning plan design. It is not an exhaustive model, rather, it is a starting place.

CONTENT AREA APPLICATIONS

English/Language Arts

• ES Language Arts: Writing
  This lesson will help students explore the similarities and differences of two kinds of candy and write elaborated and extended descriptions comparing the two. In addition, students will explore similarities and differences in a compare/contrast lesson using graphic organizers and sensory words.
• HS Literature: Novel Study
  This lesson will help students gain perspective on life on a NW Indian reservation, as well as understand the author's choices in character development. Using Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, students will see life on a reservation through the eyes of a teenager. In addition, students will understand the importance of activating prior knowledge and developing active learning techniques.
  Note to Teachers: This CSLP includes notes re: lesson design considerations and post-implementation notes.
• HS Language Arts: Grammar
  This lesson supports students gaining a deeper understanding of subordinate and independent clauses while developing their capacity to conduct structured classroom discussions.

Mathematics

• ES Math
  This lesson will help students organize and compare lines and angles. In addition, students will use CRISS strategies such as Power Thinking, Pattern Puzzles, Content Frames, and RAFT.

Physical/Health Education

• HS Health/Nutrition
  This lesson will help students understand why a person should develop a regular exercise program. In addition, will actively read, discuss, and debate an issue in order to understand it.

Science

• HS Science: Solar System
  Students will practice ways of organizing information to help in comparing and contrasting. They will also expand their understanding of vocabulary words through a Concept of Definition map, all while learning facts about planets in our solar system.
• HS Science: Pros & Cons of Energy Sources
  Technology and differentiated instruction unite as students discover how energy consumption impacts the environment and the economy.

Social Studies

• HS Social Studies: Feudalism
  This lesson will help students understand the components of a feudal village and the social structure within the village. In addition, students will practice strategies for active reading including Read and Say Something and Reciprocal Teaching.

GRADE LEVEL APPLICATIONS

2. Elementary K-5

• ES Kinder Categories
  This lesson will help students gain an understanding of how to connect information they encounter to other information they already have. They will do this by organizing similar pictures into categories. In addition, students will apply CRISS strategies to organize by category.
• ES Language Arts: Writing
  This lesson will help students explore the similarities and differences of two kinds of candy and write elaborated and extended descriptions comparing the two. In addition, students will explore similarities and differences in a compare/contrast lesson using graphic organizers and sensory words.
• ES Math
  This lesson will help students organize and compare lines and angles. In addition, students will use CRISS strategies such as Power Thinking, Pattern Puzzles, Content Frames, and RAFT.

4. High School 9-12

• HS Health/Nutrition
  This lesson will help students understand why a person should develop a regular exercise program. In addition, will actively read, discuss, and debate an issue in order to understand it.
• HS Social Studies: Feudalism
  This lesson will help students understand the components of a feudal village and the social structure within the village. In addition, students will practice strategies for active reading including Read and Say Something and Reciprocal Teaching.
• HS Literature: Novel Study
  This lesson will help students gain perspective on life on a NW Indian reservation, as well as understand the author's choices in character development. Using Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, students will see life on a reservation through the eyes of a teenager. In addition, students will understand the importance of activating prior knowledge and developing active learning techniques.
  Note to Teachers: This CSLP includes notes re: lesson design considerations and post-implementation notes.
• HS Science: Solar System
  Students will practice ways of organizing information to help in comparing and contrasting. They will also expand their understanding of vocabulary words through a Concept of Definition map, all while learning facts about planets in our solar system.
• HS Science: Pros & Cons of Energy Sources
  Technology and differentiated instruction unite as students discover how energy consumption impacts the environment and the economy.
• HS Language Arts: Grammar
  This lesson supports students gaining a deeper understanding of subordinate and independent clauses while developing their capacity to conduct structured classroom discussions.