CUP+Rationale

Creating the Rationale section of the CUP


 * What type of instructional unit will you plan? (Why? How will you deal with the weaknesses of this approach?)
 * What literacy practices will you support, teach, develop? (why)
 * What opportunities for generative thinking will you provide in your lessons? (refer to specific examples in the individual units)
 * What will be the content of Overt Instruction? (Why?) //Remember that OI includes facilitating learning and literacy practices.//
 * What will be the nature of Situated Practice? (connections between students' existing understandings and academic skills and practices)

Five Techniques (Moves) the teacher must consider: (How are you addressing these moves and teaching responsibilities in the different lessons? Remember that the sequencing of activities should be part of your group conversation. You should be able to explain why the order of lessons, the choice of texts, the nature of activities, the forms of assessment all converge to make your unit a powerful, professional document.)
 * 1) Selecting and sequencing
 * 2) Immersing and facilitating
 * 3) Modeling
 * 4) Orienting
 * 5) Facilitating