Distributed summarizing and distributed practice requires planning the questions and prompts that will initiate periodic summarizing or practice. Writing them in the lesson plan will ensure that the questions and prompts are purposeful and occur at critical points in the Learning Activity. Look at the Learning Goal of each Learning Activity and plan one or two quality questions that will require students to think about the content. If planning for distributed practice, be sure to plan the practice problems or tasks students will use to practice the skill.

It is also important to plan how students will be accountable for responding to your questions and prompts and how they will get feedback. The strongest research-based strategy for accomplishing this is with Collaborative Pairs. Note in the previous example, how students had to think about a response, write down their response, and then share with a partner.