This indispensable handbook guides you decision-by-decision through the planning of lessons that are purposeful, rigorous, and coherent. Clarify learning intentions and connect goals to success criteria. Distinguishing between conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and transfer. Select the formats and tasks that facilitate questioning and encourage productive struggle. Includes a lesson-planning template and examples from Kindergarten, first, and second grade classrooms. Empower yourself to plan lessons strategically, teach with intention and confidence, and build an exceptional foundation in math for your students.

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Surveying your site : knowing your students -- Your K-2 blueprint : planning mathematics lessons for coherence, rigor, and purpose -- Laying your foundation : it starts with big ideas, essential questions, and standards -- Reinforcing your plan : learning intentions and success criteria -- Deciding on purpose : why are you building this lesson? -- Choosing tasks : the heart of a lesson -- Choosing materials : representations, manipulatives, and other resources -- Cementing the cracks : anticipating student thinking -- Framing the lesson : formats -- Evaluating impact : formative assessment -- Planning to launch the lesson -- Planning to facilitate the lesson -- Planning to close the lesson -- Surveying your results : lesson reflection -- Appendices. Complete lesson plans -- Lesson-planning template.