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Planning Session 5 | Speaking & Listening and Language Strands Once, again, the Implementation sections can be an excellent jumping-off point (beginning on page 168 for the speaking and listening standards and page 176 for the language standards). You could ask your colleagues to again prioritize and then begin a plan of right-now action. Another way to plan is to consider that for students to become independent in the expectations of the CCSS they will need plenty of time for repeated practice. On page 178 we suggest laying out grammar instruction strategically across a writing process. You could suggest that your colleagues work in partners or groups, alongside a monthlong unit plan or a yearlong scope and sequence and plan for predictable points to return to skills outlined in the speaking and listening and language standards. For instance, if students are moving along a writing process you might plan three or four points in the study to return to language instruction, such as when students are collecting ideas, again when they begin to draft, and once morebefore they publish. Similarly, you might plan to support students in having conversations with their peers to strengthen their writing.