1. All is Well that Ends Well!
Dr. Mary Ransdell
University of Memphis

2. Why use closure? My personal motto for the past 30 years…
Let children have fun and slip in learning when they aren’t looking.
What are your reasons
for using closure?

3. Why use closure?
Good teachers present information in a variety of ways. Your administrators look for closure activities as part of current evaluation measures.

4. Closure activities encourage
A review information
A prediction of what might come subsequently
Students to think critically
Students to demonstrate understanding

5. Closure activities also
Uncover confusions or misconceptions
Deepen student understanding
Support retention by students
Gather formative assessment data

6. Ineffective Closure For tomorrow… Oops, time to go…
Do you have any questions?

7. At the very least…. What questions do you have? As you leave… Tell me…
Show me…

8. Closure as part of SPI, GLEs, & Common Core Standards
Language Arts (oral and written communication standards)
Spatial and organizational standards (graphic organizers)
Drawing and representational standards

9. Closure as part of SPI, GLEs, & Common Core Standards
Content standards
Assessment standards
Physical Education/Movement standards

10. Format closure might take
Oral (single word from everyone as they leave the room)
Written (exit ticket, paragraph, or sentences)

11. Format closure might also take
Gestures (thumb up/thumb down)
Game format (competition)
Activity (problem or exercise)

12. Oral Closure Strategies
10-2 (10 minutes of instruction, followed by 2 minutes of student-to-student discourse)
Fishbowl
Inside-Outside Circles

13. Oral Closure Strategies
Talk to the Animals (use a puppet and let young children “tell” the puppet”)
Role Play
Think-Pair-Share
Reciprocal Teaching

14. Written Closure Strategies
The Important Thing About
__________________ is___________________
____________________________________________________________________________
But the most important thing about
From: The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown

15. Written Closure Strategies
The Important Thing About __The US flag__ is __ that it is a symbol of freedom___ __ The stripes represent the thirteen original colonies and the stars represent the fifty states. The red symbolizes the blood spilled for our freedom. __ But the most important thing about __The US flag__ is__its meaning for Americans. ___

16. Written Closure Strategies
3-2-1 (3 items of interest, 2 things you want to know, 1 idea to take “home”)
3 Whats (What we learned? So what? Now what?)

17. Written Closure Strategies
3 Ideas (write three … taken from the lesson)
QCC (a question, a confusion, a comment)
A-B-C Summarize (each child takes a letter and gives a word relative to the topic)

18. Written Closure Strategies
Single Serving (students write one word to summarize content, then two sentences to explain)
Relay Summary (1st student writes a summary sentence and passes paper to 2nd who writes a DIFFERENT sentence, then to 3rd student…)
Graphic organizers

19. Written Closure Strategies
Write simile or metaphor
Write letter, journal, or add to previously created mind map or learning log
Describe cause and effect relative to the content
Sentence starters

20. Write a simile….
Using closure strategies with my students is like ______________________.
Attending the Martin Institute conference is like_______________________.

21. Gestural or Movement Orientated Closure Strategies
Simple Card sorts
Relay “races”
Inside-Outside Circle

22. Gestural or Movement Orientated Closure Strategies
Draw / illustrate concepts
Thumbs up / thumbs down
Fist of five

23. Game or Activity Closure Strategies
Trivia game
Flash cards
Games / tournaments over several days
Relay

24. Game or Activity Closure Strategies
Students write and perform a rap, poem, or song
I Have Who Has
Noun Game

25. Closure for today: The Envelope, Please… Creative Let students produce
Last Word (Acrostics)
Creative
Let students produce
Open ended
Stimulate students
Use critical thinking
Review
Evaluate

26. Closure for today: 10 minutes, then be ready to share Write a Haiku
3 line poetry with 17 syllables; no rhyming necessary
5 syllables
7 syllables

27. What questions do you have?
Thank you for your attention.
Mary Ransdell
TASL Credit ID:
Martin192