Targets, Tasks and Texts
Across the Day (Grades 3-5)
Experienced with NTI Teachers/ Coaches
Session 5
Learning Targets
• I can develop learning targets for content
areas other than English language arts.
• I can develop and use protocol-based tasks
across the content areas.
• I can select and effectively use complex texts
across the day.
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Introductions
• Title of this Session: Targets, Tasks, and Texts
Across the Day
• Introduce yourself to the others at your table
by giving your name and completing this
sentence:
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I hope to get new learning in this session and be
able to _____________________.
(In other words, what do you hope to learn in this
session to apply to your practice?)
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Read for the Gist
• First Target: I can develop learning targets for
content areas other than English language
arts.
• Locate the Learning Targets Rubric
 In Participant’s Notebook, p. 97
• Independently read through the rubric for flow
and to get the gist.
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Video
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Video Through A Lens
• Re-watch the video
• During this second viewing, think specifically
about the use of learning targets in this video.
• Capture your thinking on the Learning Targets
Notecatcher.
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in Participant’s Notebook, p. 96
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Video
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Discuss
• Turn and talk to a partner about what you saw
in the video.
• Use your Learning Targets Notecatcher to
guide your conversation.
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Key Verbs
• Locate Verbs to Use in Learning Targets.
• in Participant’s Notebook, p. 98.
• Read through the document and highlight key
words. (3 minutes)
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Apply your Learning
• Go back to the Learning Targets Notecatcher
that you used while watching the video.
• In the space provided on the Learning Targets
Notecatcher, answer the questions about the
Verbs to Use in Learning Targets document.
• When everyone at your table has finished, talk
in groups of 4-5 about your answers to the
questions.
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Target Practice
• Write a learning target that you are willing to share
with someone else and get feedback on.
• Stand up and walk around the room. Take your
target with you!
• Find a partner (each person should share their
target)
• Find a new partner and repeat!
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Target Revision
• Return to your seat.
• Revise your learning target based on the
feedback from the participants that you spoke
with.
• Now look at the Learning Targets Rubric.
• How did you do on writing your own learning
target based on the rubric?
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Share-Out and Self-Assessment
• Share any thoughts you have regarding the
following prompt with the large group:
 How can learning targets be used
throughout the day to support learning?
• Self assess progress on this learning target:
 I can develop targets for content areas
other than English language arts
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Learning Targets
• Our next Targets:
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I can develop and use protocol based tasks
across the content areas.
I can select and effectively use complex
texts across the day.
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The 4T’s
• Locate 4Ts of Curriculum Design document.
• You just learned about Targets. This document
will:
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prompt you to think about the other T’s: Topic,
Tasks and Texts.
guide your planning of other times/subjects in
your instructional day.
• Scan over this document to make sure you
have a basic understanding of the 4T’s.
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Protocols Across Content Areas
• Locate the three sample protocols: GoGoMo,
Admit/Exit Ticket and Take a Stand.
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in Participant’s Notebook, pps. 103-106.
• Pick up three notecards from the center of your
table.
• On each card, write an idea of how you could
incorporate this protocol (task) into a content
area lesson of choice (topic).
• Once you have read and written notecards for
the three protocols, you may begin your break.
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BREAK!
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GoGoMo
• We will practice the GoGoMo Protocol using
the three cards you created before break.
• You will stand up and walk around to find a
partner (take your cards with you!).
• In each partnership, share ideas (give one) ask
a partner for an idea (get one) and handshake
or high five your partner before moving on
(move on).
• Repeat until you’ve met with three partners.
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Independent Reflection
• In your Participant’s Notebook, capture some
thinking. Be sure to include:
 notes about how to incorporate protocols
throughout the day
 new thinking you may have about how to
do this
 benefits of this practice
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Video Through a Lens
• As you watch the “Science Talk” video, be
thinking about how this lesson integrates
targets, tasks and texts in this classroom.
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Video
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Table Talk
• In groups of 4-5, discuss what you noticed
about targets, tasks and texts in this video.
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Reviewing Text Complexity
• Locate the Text Complexity Qualitative
Measures Info Rubric and Text Complexity
Qualitative Measures Lit Rubric
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in Participant’s Notebook, p. 107,
• Many of you are familiar with these rubrics.
• These rubrics will help you as you select texts
to read in content areas through out the day.
• Read through each of the rubrics for the flow.
(4 minutes)
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Using the Rubrics
• When you are finished reading, turn and talk to
a partner. Discuss the following prompts:
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How confident do you feel to use these
rubrics to support the selection of complex
text in your school/classroom?
If you are not confident, what more do you
need? Note: (This need might be something
that you list on your action plan)
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Re-grouping
• For the next task, you should work with your
school-based group or a group that is
pursuing similar interests or topics.
• Feel free to move about the room and talk to
other participants and use this task to network,
ask questions and action plan.
• Before you move, locate: Action Plan: July
2014 Network Team Institute
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Action Plan
• Take 5-7 minutes to work independently on your
action plan.
• Documents that you may want to review: 4T’s of
Curriculum Design and Text Complexity Rubrics.
• Consider:
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First, what adjustments do you want to make to
your plan?
Next, what is your new thinking?
Finally, discuss with a partner or meet with your
school group to apply the learning of this session
to your action plan.
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Monitor Your Learning
• Look at your statement from the beginning of
this session.
 What did you hope to learn?
 How did this session meet your needs?
 If there are still areas that you need to
pursue did you note that on your action
plan?
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Reflection on Our Targets
• Reflect on and review our learning targets in
some blank space in your notebook:
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I can develop targets for content areas other than
English Language Arts.
I can develop and use protocol-based tasks
across the content areas.
I can select and effectively use complex texts
across the day.
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Thank you!
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