Wasn't that WOW! cute?! It was "expressive" alright!

Thanks for all of that feedback. I see what you're saying about
essential. I think in this case, defining was essential,
because they needed to know that expressions were combinations
of numbers and operations and that number sentences (equations)
contained expressions and (=) sign, showing that the expressions
were equal on both sides of the equals sign. I think it was
critical for them to know that prior to being able to write
examples and solve word problems.

These are all great things to keep in mind as I'm going through
this process. It makes my brain hurt to do it, though, and it's
hard for me to imagine doing this whole process 3-5 times a
week, let alone for every subject and every new lesson. You
kind of have to be teaching one lesson/unit and already be
thinking ahead to the next lesson/unit, so you can do that Task
Analysis and pre-assessment. Then you can analyze it and
prepare for it while you're teaching the current unit. I seem
to barely just "get by" from day to day and I hate that I can't
spend the hours in planning that I'd like to. I'm really hoping
that this will get easier and more automatic for me as I
practice it more. It will, won't it Jan?!! LOL!

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