You can see from the pictures below that the first student can 1.) recognize the numeral 15, 2.) understand that 15 is ten and five extras, and 3.) fill in ten frames to represent the number 15. When the students are given an exit ticket every single day, you have ongoing evidence that the students are getting the concept you’re teaching.
The student below is clearly in need of some remediation or a check-in. It’s not clear from this particular ticket if the student had an issue with recognizing that this shows 17, or simply had a numeral recognition/writing issue (which was the case). But having this in hand was a great springboard for a little check-in with this student.
Exit tickets work great for language arts as well! I use exit tickets to assess letter recognition, rhyming words, CVC words, and more!
Wondering what to do with those little slips of paper once you are done with them? You can simply send these home to show the parents that you are constantly keeping up with how their child is doing. This is what I often do with my language arts exit tickets. I was doing that with my math tickets too until a reader commented that she has her students glue them into their math notebooks! Best idea ever, in my opinion! So now, I often have the students glue their tickets into their interactive math notebooks as well.
Want to give exit tickets a try? You can access an exit ticket freebie right HERE! This freebie is for decomposing numbers, which I think is a great little check to do with your students even if you’re not currently teaching that right now.
You can also check out my exit ticket bundles for math and language arts by clicking on the images below. You can also get the sets individually in my TpT shop.
I hope that you will give exit tickets a try in your classroom!
Hello! I don't give exit tickets daily, but I do use them several times throughout the week. Sometimes I even give them BEFORE a lesson so that I have a quick picture of what the kids can already do. Sometimes I give my entire class one ticket to complete at the same time, and yes, sometimes I only give them to certain students (usually the ones who required reteaching or extra scaffolding). And sometimes I give them two or more tickets to complete at once. Ha! So that's a lot of answers for you too. There is really no best way to use these–the important thing is that you make them work for you!