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Determine the objective you plan to teach. In each column, describe the activities you will be doing to support student learning, then describe the activities you expect students to be doing to ensure mastery of the lesson objectives. The top section of each column describes the student activities; the bottom section describes the teacher activities.

For a sample completed document, you may return to your course module and view a completed sample.

Lesson Objective

Gradual Release Activities

For each column, describe what students will be doing (top row) and how you'll support them (bottom row).

Activities by phase

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