What it is. A labeled diagram can be turned into three-level notes.
Why our test works. A diagram already contains a structure — the child's job is to READ that structure rather than invent one, which makes it the easiest possible first transfer of the outline skill to real material. Science supplies the diagrams, so the content class carries the subject matter.
Leans on. Unit 0 lessons 2 and 3.
Watch for. If the diagram has no hierarchy, the exercise has nothing to teach. Choose one that does.
Turn a labeled diagram into three-level notes. The worked example is the one you build on the board: Teacher projects a science diagram and builds the outline from it, naming which label is a The class reads Writing Book 4, p.53 — our own page, so a child who was absent can still get the lesson.
You open by saying where this sits — what it follows and what it is part of — in one sentence, and then you give them the reason it matters, in your own words, for about ten seconds.
Then you do one yourself, building it on the board and leaving it up: Teacher projects a science diagram and builds the outline from it, naming which label is a main idea and which is a detail. The board copy is what they look back at when they stall, so it stays there for the whole lesson.
The We-do is the main whiteboard moment of the lesson — short answers, boards up on your signal, every child visible at once. Class places three labels at the right level together. If the answer is a whole sentence rather than a word, take it on their notebooks instead, because a sentence written on a whiteboard is written once and destroyed.
They open Writing Book 4 to page 53 and read it with you. Stop at the worked example and let them look at it.
Exit directions in full, standing still, before anyone moves. Then they work alone: Take three-level notes from a diagram, with margin topic words.
You close on the exit direction — Read your line at level I. — taken from every child before anyone stands, and then the line you want them to still have tomorrow: A diagram is notes someone else already made.
If the diagram has no hierarchy, the exercise has nothing to teach. Choose one that does.