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LESSON PLAN ANATOMY

Administrative "Look Fors"

Each generated lesson arrives with all eight required components filled in.

  1. 01

    State standards

    Codes pulled for your state and grade, or the Common Core / NGSS equivalent.

  2. 02

    CDOS standards

    Career Development and Occupational Studies alignment wherever the content supports it.

  3. 03

    Do Now

    An entry task built on higher-order thinking questions, not recall.

  4. 04

    Gradual release

    I do, we do, you do together, you do independently — with realistic minutes.

  5. 05

    Checks for understanding

    Observable evidence checkpoints placed through the lesson.

  6. 06

    Exit ticket

    A short, objective-aligned close you can score in minutes.

  7. 07

    Differentiation

    Tiered tasks, flexible grouping, and scaffolds so every student accesses the objective.

  8. 08

    SPED & ELL supports

    Generic accommodations, scaffolds, and grouping — plus language objectives, sentence frames, key vocabulary, and native-language options for ELLs.

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