Worksheet
Exit tickets: reflect on today’s learning
Summarise learning, identify an open question and reflect on confidence at the end of a lesson.
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Year 4 homeroom teacher
Maya Tan
I plan adaptation before the lesson, choosing accessible texts, vocabulary support and preparation time so pupils with different starting points can join the same Year 4 conversation.
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I teach a Year 4 class with a wide range of starting points. I plan the adaptation before the lesson because it changes what the lesson needs to do: which text will be accessible, what support will help and how pupils can take part in the same conversation.
When a class includes different reading experiences and home languages, there is no single scaffold that works for everyone. I look for more than one route into the material while keeping a common question for the group. Pupils may need different prompts, vocabulary support or time to prepare, but those supports should help them contribute to the shared learning.
I value resources that are flexible enough for teachers to adjust without losing the main purpose. A task should make it possible to see what pupils understand and where they need another example. I want to design for variation from the beginning, so adaptation is part of the teaching rather than an extra step added after the lesson is planned.
How I approach a lesson
Plan access and adaptation before the lesson.
Keep a shared question with varied routes into it.
Use responses to decide what support or example comes next.
Templates I'd use with my class
Explore these templates and decide what fits your own setting.
Science
Bees and pollination: know, wonder and learn
Use an inquiry chart to connect prior ideas, questions and information learned from a short text.
Maths
Problem solver: understand, plan, solve, check
Solve a multi-step problem by identifying known information, ordering calculations and checking the result.
English reading
The Keeper’s Lantern
Find stated details, use context to consider word meaning, support an inference with a quotation and summarise the story briefly.