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Module Design
Lesson Design
Content Stages
Wit & Wisdom equips students with a flexible yet predictable process for deep reading of complex texts. Lessons are structured with a purposeful progression that enables students to access, understand, and analyze these texts. This progression consists of five Content Stages: Wonder, Organize, Reveal, Distill, and Know. Shaping each lesson is a Content Framing Question that guides students’ exploration of a text and represents where they land in the lesson’s learning.
Craft Stages
The crafts of writing, speaking, and presenting are also taught in a careful sequence that ultimately leads students to mastery and independence. Students begin by examining high-quality exemplars of the craft. Then they receive progressive direct instruction in the skills necessary to practice and master the craft. As is true with the Content Stages, Wit & Wisdom delineates each Craft Stage with a Craft Question.
To make the most of Wit & Wisdom, teachers must internalize the curriculum before they implement it. Wit & Wisdom’s preparation protocols support this internalization, building a deep understanding of the curriculum’s what and why. This understanding helps teachers think through lesson materials and logistics, as well as pace and scaffold instruction.
The Module Study Protocol guides educators to examine a module’s topic, texts, and skill focus and analyze the knowledge and skills students are expected to develop.
The Focusing Question Arc Study Protocol guides educators to understand what knowledge and skills an arc of lessons, addressing a particular Focusing Question will develop and how that arc fits in with the module as a whole.
The Lesson Study Protocol supports educators in preparing to teach a lesson by understanding what happens in the lesson and why. This deep analysis helps educators pace instruction and make sound decisions, such as how long to discuss a question before moving on, as well as anticipate where students may struggle and plan how to support them with follow-up questions.
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