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 part/whole lesson plans focus on foundational number sense concepts such as "some", "set", "separate", "part" and "whole" at the initial precursor level. At the distal precursor level, lessons have students work with partitioning sets and modeling equal parts.