Teacher clarity leads to student clarity. After educators find clarity in the standards (by “unwrapping” them), they can clearly communicate learning expectations to their students in the form of Student Learning Targets. They do this by reviewing the teachable concepts (important nouns and noun phrases) and the related skills (verbs) in each Essential Standard assigned to that unit of study and then deciding how to “translate” that Essential Standard—without losing its rigor—into age-appropriate language their students will understand.

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LEARNING TARGETS AND SUCCESS CRITERIA FOR STUDENT CLARITY