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Shared Graphic Organizer

A Shared Graphic Organizer is completed as a class before anyone completes one alone — you populate the first rows together, naming why each entry belongs where it does. TeacherHero builds it in the We Do phase and produces the organizer itself, with the same columns the independent task will use.

Complete part of an organizer with decreasing support.

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We Do: Extend Tuesday's Courage Claim

The We Do phase of a Grade 6 ELA lesson, as TeacherHero generated it. Planned for 9 minutes.

  1. Teacher directions

    • 0:00–1:00 — Have students open Tuesday's chart and read the claim in row 2 to their small groups. Ask groups to keep the claim's main idea while adding new evidence.
    • 1:00–2:00 — Direct groups to read the fresh source lines on the worksheet. Remind students that every quotation must come from those lines.
    • 2:00–4:00 — Guide the first chart row with two prompts: Which sentence names a promise Ada must honor? How does that obligation pressure her choice? Require groups to copy the sentence exactly and complete the analysis frame.
    • 4:00–6:30 — Fade support for the second row. Ask groups to choose the sentence showing Ada's final choice, then explain how the action shows resolve. Offer only the printed frame unless a group cannot begin.
    • 6:30–8:15 — Remove content prompts. Have groups write the closing link connecting Ada's obligation, her choice, and courage. Ask groups to check quotation accuracy and explanation quality.
    • 8:15–9:00 — Invite one group to read its chart aloud. Identify the claim, evidence, and explanation, then transition students toward collaborative paragraph planning.

  2. Student directions

    • Open Tuesday's chart and read the claim in row 2.
    • Read the fresh source lines with your small group.
    • Copy one exact sentence showing Ada's obligation.
    • Explain how the obligation shapes Ada's choice.
    • Copy one exact sentence showing Ada's final choice.
    • Explain how the choice shows resolve.
    • Use obligation and resolve across your explanations.
    • Use only quotations from the fresh source lines on this page.
    • Use the frames when you need help beginning.

  3. Questions to ask

    • Which sentence names an obligation, and what choice does that promise create?
    • How does the promise press Ada toward a difficult decision?
    • Which action shows resolve, and how does that action support our claim?
    • What must an explanation add beyond repeating the quotation?

  4. Misconceptions to expect

    • Students may select “Nobody would blame you” as obligation evidence. Clarify that the woman offers permission to leave, but Ada did not make that promise.
    • Students may copy only part of a sentence or change the source's wording. Require exact copying with quotation marks.
    • Students may retell Ada's action without explaining its meaning. Ask what the action reveals about courage during fear.
    • Students may treat resolve as having no fear. Emphasize that Ada shows resolve through action while facing pressure.
Why the coach chose it here — Shared Graphic Organizer fits this nine-minute We Do because students extend Tuesday's row 2 claim instead of restarting the analysis. The class completes a fresh evidence-and-analysis chart from unused lines in the story. Teacher prompts begin with the obligation evidence, decrease during the choice evidence, and fade during the closing link. This uses successive relearning by revisiting the claim-evidence-explanation structure from I Do while preparing the written body paragraph.

Frequently asked questions

Why fill an organizer together first?

Because an empty organizer is an instruction students cannot follow until they know what belongs in a cell. Doing the first rows as a class makes the column headings mean something. The independent phase then reuses the same structure rather than introducing a new one.

What is the organizer for?

Holding evidence in a shape the next task needs. TeacherHero contracts the We Do phase for this strategy to produce a graphic organizer, generated with the lesson's learning target and final product in its context, so the organizer can collect what the final product requires.

Do students keep it?

That is the intent — the shared organizer feeds the independent product. Because each phase's prompt carries the sections generated before it, the You Do task is written knowing what students already have in front of them rather than asking them to start from nothing.

Strategies that pair with it

Guided Practice

We Do · Complete a parallel task with decreasing teacher support.

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Do Now

Warm-Up · Complete a short review or readiness task.

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Ready, Set, Vocabulary

I Do · Run the same per-word card for every term: definition, synonyms and antonyms, the sentence from the text, and a use-it move.

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Transfer Prompt

Exit Ticket · Apply today's learning to a new miniature example.

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