ConceptLinks® Summer School Pacing Plan

For each week of your Summer School session, choose one ConceptLinks® module and use this Pacing Plan to guide instruction. Follow the Teacher’s Notes in the Teacher’s Guide for each lesson part.

For Day 1 of your first week, start with the Visual Comprehension Lesson. Observe students as they work. Use your observations and your prior knowledge of students’ abilities to place each student in the appropriate Student Book.

	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5
Reading	Preview the Student Book (60 min) Visual Comprehension Lesson (30 min)	Explore Chapter 1 (60 min)	Explore Chapter 2 (60 min)	Explore Chapter 3 (60 min)	Student Book Wrap Up (60 min) Assessments (30 min)
Writing/ Language Arts		Career Explorations (30 min)	Use Language/ Writers Workshop: prewriting and drafting (30 min)	Writers Workshop: revising (30 min)	Writers Workshop: editing and publishing (40 min)
Optional Extension	Allow students to choose one question from the Visual Comprehension Lesson to use as a writing prompt. Have students write a paragraph based on the question, and then share their writing with a partner. (30 min)	Present Career Explorations (30 min)	Writers Workshop: continued (30 min)	Science Around You (30 min)	Writers Workshop: present (30 min)