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Micro-Response

A Micro-Response is a very short exit ticket — a sentence or two — aimed at the single thing the lesson was for. TeacherHero generates it against the day's learning target and supplies the reteach signal alongside, so a stack of tickets sorts into two piles rather than needing to be read twice.

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Exit Ticket: Explain Fear with New Evidence

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

  1. Purpose

    Check whether students independently transfer the claim, quotation, and explanation structure to new evidence.

  2. The prompt

    Read the new evidence from The Ferry at Dusk. Write two or three sentences that state a claim about Ada’s fear, quote exact words, and explain the evidence. Use conceal to explain what Ada hides and what the evidence reveals about her action. Do not reuse evidence from an earlier activity.

  3. Success criteria

    • I state a claim about what Ada’s hidden fear reveals.
    • I include an exact quotation from the new evidence.
    • I explain how the quotation supports my claim about Ada’s action.
    • I use conceal to explain hiding without claiming fear disappears.
    • I use evidence that did not appear in an earlier activity.

  4. Reteach signal

    Reteach the claim if the response only summarizes Ada’s actions. Reteach quotation use if the evidence is missing, inaccurate, or copied from an earlier activity. Reteach the vocabulary distinction if the student claims that conceal means fear disappears. Reteach explanation if the response does not connect the quotation to Ada’s action.

Why the coach chose it here — Micro-Response best fits the four-minute independent check because students have already modeled, practiced, compared, and written a full paragraph. This task changes the evidence focus to Ada’s concealed fear while preserving the final product’s claim–quotation–explanation structure. It uses retrieval practice to recall the paragraph structure, elaboration to explain what evidence reveals, and informative feedback through a precise reteach signal.

Frequently asked questions

Can two sentences really check a lesson?

If they ask about the right thing. A micro-response is not a summary of the period; it targets the one move the learning target named. That is what makes it sortable in the corridor between classes, which is when exit tickets actually get read.

What is a reteach signal?

The specific thing in a response that means the modelling did not land — written per lesson rather than as generic advice. It is the difference between reading thirty tickets and knowing what you are reading them for, and TeacherHero generates it with the ticket.

How does it differ from other exit tickets?

By length and by what it asks. TeacherHero's catalog carries several exit-ticket moves — a transfer prompt, a target check, a correction task — and they check different things. A micro-response is the shortest, aimed at whether the day's core move is available at all.

Strategies that pair with it

Correct the Error

Exit Ticket · Revise a misconception and explain the correction.

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Learning Target Check

Exit Ticket · State progress toward the target with evidence.

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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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