The Emergent Lesson Plans are organized by linkage levels (Initial Precursor and Distal Precursor) and by grade level bands: K-5, 6-8, and 9-12. Teachers should select lesson plans from the students' true grade level band at their current instructional level (initial or distal).
Expected outcomes at the Initial Precursor level are increased attention, engagement, communication attempts, and interest in the math tools used during the lessons and routines.
Expected outcomes at the Distal Precursor level are increases in the duration of attention and engagement, frequency of communication attempts, and attempts at using math tools during the lessons and routines.
The composing and decomposing lesson plans target the skills of combining and partitioning sets, subitizing, discriminating numbers from non-numbers, composing and decomposing sets within 10, comparing sets, and modeling and representing problems involving the four operations.