Requesting a specific school support

Learning goal

Ask for specific help and follow up if the answer is unclear.

Materials

The student page below and a pencil.

Opening question · 3 minutes

“What specific support could they request?”

A school situation · 5 minutes

Jordan understands a project topic but is unsure how to check a draft. The directions say to explain the evidence. Jordan wants the teacher to show one example during a school help period. Jordan does not want to share private details.

One possible response · 4 minutes

“Could you show one example of explaining evidence during the school help period?”

Practice · 10 minutes

What specific support could they request?

1. Written directions are too long to follow in one reading.

2. The first explanation does not answer the student's question.

Possible answers

1. “Could I have the steps as a short list and check the first one with you?”

2. “Could you show a different example or do the first step with me?”

Student page · 5 minutes

Use the ready-to-print student page at the end of this lesson. Students may write, draw, or give an answer aloud.

Exit question · 3 minutes

“Choose one of the stories. What could the student say or do first?”

Student page to print

Requesting a specific school support

Write, draw, or say your answer. You may pass.

An example

Jordan understands a project topic but is unsure how to check a draft. The directions say to explain the evidence. Jordan wants the teacher to show one example during a school help period. Jordan does not want to share private details.

What specific support could they request?

One possible response: “Could you show one example of explaining evidence during the school help period?”

1. Written directions are too long to follow in one reading.

What specific support could they request?

2. The first explanation does not answer the student's question.

What specific support could they request?

One sentence to keep

Choose one story above. Write the first thing the person could say or do.