Planning with CRA

When thinking about how to set up an intervention plan, it can be useful to plan this in terms of the CRA progression. A simple game plan for this is below. 

If a CRA Progression is given

1. Look at the CRA progression for the outcome.

   • Choose which strategies to explicitly teach.

   • Choose questions that have been given within the progression to do with students.

   • Develop ~3 lessons for each outcome one for each, Concrete, Representational, Abstract.

2. Choose Low Floor High Ceiling questions for each lesson.

3. Find an opener or warm up for the lesson – Number talks, fluency practice, or review question from previous lesson work well.

4. Choose a closing/final question that could be formatively assessed.

5. Add more lessons as may be needed around the CRA lesson – after formative assessment you should be able to determine if students need more of any of the CRA progression lessons, or if they need more time to practice a skill after the CRA progression has been taught.

A sample intervention learning plan can be found here.