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Exit Ticket · Quick check before they leave

Learning Target Check

A Learning Target Check asks, in one item, whether the student can do the thing the target named. TeacherHero generates it from that target, so the check and the objective cannot drift apart — which is the common failure when an exit ticket is written separately from the lesson it closes.

State progress toward the target with evidence.

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Exit Ticket: Market Setting Check

The Exit Ticket phase of a Grade 6 ELA lesson, as TeacherHero generated it. Planned for 4 minutes.

  1. Purpose

    Check whether students can independently explain how setting limits Ada’s choices.

  2. The prompt

    Imagine a new chart row about Tomas’s location in the market. Explain how the market setting limits Ada’s ability to keep both obligations. Name the setting detail and connect it to Ada’s resolve. Write two complete sentences without copying a completed chart row.

  3. Success criteria

    • I name a specific setting detail from the story.
    • I explain how the setting limits one action Ada can take.
    • I connect the setting pressure to Ada’s obligation or resolve.
    • I write a fresh explanation instead of copying today’s chart.

  4. Reteach signal

    Reteach responses that name only Ada’s feelings or obligations without explaining a setting limit. Ask students to identify the market detail, state the action Ada cannot complete from the ferry, and revise the response using obligation or resolve.

Why the coach chose it here — Learning Target Check best fits the final four minutes because students independently retrieve the setting-to-action relationship after guided chart work. The new market-based prompt avoids repeating a completed ferry row while still preparing evidence for body paragraph 1. It uses retrieval practice to check independent recall and informative feedback to reveal whether students can name a setting detail, identify a limited action, and connect the pressure to Ada’s obligation or resolve.

Frequently asked questions

How is this different from a micro-response?

Mostly in framing. A target check is written explicitly against the objective's wording, so a teacher reading the pile is answering one question: did they meet today's target. A micro-response is shorter and freer in form. Both are exit-ticket moves aimed at the same lesson.

What keeps the check aligned to the target?

That both come from the same lesson context. TeacherHero refuses to generate any section while the learning target is blank, and every section prompt is aimed at it — so the exit ticket is written from the objective rather than from the activities that happened to fill the period.

What if the target changes after generating?

The page tells you. Each phase records a fingerprint of the setup it was written from, and editing the learning target afterwards flags the phases that were written against the old one, with an offer to rebuild them or to mark them reviewed as they are.

Strategies that pair with it

Correct the Error

Exit Ticket · Revise a misconception and explain the correction.

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Micro-Response

Exit Ticket · Answer one rigorous target-aligned prompt.

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One-Sentence Response

Exit Ticket · Show the target in one precise sentence.

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Short Constructed Response

Exit Ticket · Produce a brief independently reasoned response.

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