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Worked Example

A Worked Example takes students through a complete problem while they watch, with the thinking made audible at each step. TeacherHero builds it for the I Do phase and produces guided notes, so students have somewhere structured to follow along rather than copying a board and hoping the structure survives.

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I Do: Build a Two-Text Connection

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

  1. Teaching point

    A strong two-text paragraph does more than place two quotations together: it states an idea, explains evidence from the article, shows a related moment in the story, and explains how the article helps us understand the character’s decision.

  2. Think-aloud

    • I need an idea shared by both texts, not a summary of either text.
    • I select a quotation that directly supports the article’s explanation of courage.
    • I explain the quotation before moving to the story so the reader understands the informational idea.
    • I choose a story quotation that shows both fear and Ada’s decision.
    • I make the connection explicit by explaining how the article changes or deepens my understanding of Ada’s action.
    • I check for one exact quotation from each source and an explanation after each piece of evidence.

  3. Checks for understanding

    • After the Article evidence slot, students show one finger for the informational text or two fingers for the story text; look for one finger.
    • After the Story evidence slot, students point to the words that show Ada’s action; scan for the phrase about walking down the gangway to find Tomas.
    • After the assembled paragraph, students mark A above the article quotation and S above the story quotation; look for one A and one S.
Why the coach chose it here — The Worked Example strategy best fits this Grade 6 lesson because students must produce a paragraph that connects an informational explanation of fear to a character’s decision, using one quotation from each text. The warm-up already retrieved Ada’s choice and the word resolve, so this model advances the sequence by demonstrating the new intellectual work: moving from an article idea, to selected evidence, to explanation, and then to a cross-text connection. The guided notes make each writing decision visible while keeping quotation accuracy manageable for learners who need heavy scaffolding. This strategy uses the worked_examples and elaboration levers; later practice can fade the slots as students write their own paragraph.

Frequently asked questions

What separates a worked example from just solving a problem?

The reasoning is spoken, not only the steps. A solved problem shows what was done; a worked example shows why each move was chosen and what was ruled out. TeacherHero generates the teaching point, the script and the follow-along structure together for that reason.

What do students hold while you model?

Guided notes — the resource kind the I Do phase is contracted to produce. Students follow the same structure you are working through, with room to capture the reasoning rather than transcribe arithmetic. The example on this page shows the notes as the model generated them.

How does it connect to the rest of the lesson?

The phases after it can see it. TeacherHero passes every already-generated section into the next one's prompt, so the guided practice step continues the same example rather than introducing an unrelated one, and the independent task asks for the move that was just modelled.

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Think-Aloud Model

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Analysis Chart

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