Explicit Teaching: Persisting

Lesson Component Examples/Notes

Opening Students will share answers at their table using a
When you want to give up, what stops you? Round Robin.
New Material Examples: making a plan for success, thinking
Teacher will explain what is means to persist and through problems, staying focused, trying different
display examples on the doc cam strategies, keeping a goal in mind, learning from
mistakes, continuing something until it is done
Part 2: Teacher will think aloud and model
selecting a piece of evidence that is an example of
how Salva survived because he showed
persistence
Guided Practice

Watch Salva Dut TED talk. Ask students, “What Call on about five students to share examples from
examples of the habit of persisting did you hear in the video/
the video?”

Part 2: Students will work with their partner to Teacher will circulate to CFU, and stop class to
record additional pieces of evidence from the text. correct common mistakes.

Closing Students will write for eight minutes, and then I

Explain how Salva Dut showed persistence in the will collect their writing.
novel A Long Walk to Water