What it is. The road map now fixes the sources as well as the parts.
Why our test works. Grade 6's plan fixed the parts and their order. The Grade 7 failure is a good plan with nothing behind it — the child discovers at drafting that paragraph three has no evidence and invents some, which is where fabrication actually begins. Requiring the source AT PLANNING makes the gap visible while it is still cheap to fix, and the whole of Unit 27 exists to be used here.
Leans on. Grade 6 ran the six-stage cycle without sources.
Watch for. A part with no source is not yet planned. Better to cut it now than to have it invented in lesson 29.
Plan the road map of the explanatory project. The worked example is the one you build on the board: Teacher shows the road map with today's slot named, and models plan the road map on the cl The class reads Writing Book 7, p.66 — 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. Before anything new, sixty seconds of retrieval on U26 set 1, U27 set 1, U27 set 2: ask, take the answers from boards rather than hands so you see all thirty, and do not re-teach — note who has lost it and carry on.
Then you do one yourself, building it on the board and leaving it up: Teacher shows the road map with today's slot named, and models plan the road map on the class piece — one slot only, so the model is followable. 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 works the same slot on the shared piece, then reads two versions aloud and says which is clearer and why. 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 7 to page 66 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: In your notebook: plan the road map for your own piece, double-spaced so there is room to correct.
You close on the exit direction — Read the one sentence you are most sure of. — taken from every child before anyone stands, and then the line you want them to still have tomorrow: This year the plan has to say where the evidence comes from.
A part with no source is not yet planned. Better to cut it now than to have it invented in lesson 29.