​Exit Slips are a tool used to check students understanding of new material. This strategy requires students to respond to proposed questions either at the end of a lesson or the end of a class period. This in turn, will help students reflect on what they have learned and allows teachers to quickly assess students understanding of the material.    
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     Why use exit slips?

• They provide teachers with an informal measure of how well students have understood a topic or lesson.
• They help students reflect on what they have learned.
• They allow students to express what or how they are thinking about new information.
• They teach students to think critically.

There are three categories of exit slips (Fisher & Frey, 2004):

• Prompts that document learning
  • Ex. Write one thing you learned today.
  • Ex. Discuss how today's lesson could be used in the real world.
• Prompts that emphasize the process of learning
  • Ex. I didn't understand…
  • Ex. Write one question you have about today's lesson.
• Prompts to evaluate the effectiveness of instruction
  • Ex. Did you enjoy working in small groups today? Why or why not?

Other exit prompts include:

• I would like to learn more about…
• Please explain more about…
• The most important thing I learned today is…
• The thing that surprised me the most today was…
• I wish…

Procedure:
   1. At the end of a lesson, the teacher should ask each student to respond to a provided prompt. The prompt 
       should be categorized in one of the three ways (as mentioned above):
               • Prompts that document learning
               • Prompts that emphasize the process of learning
               • Prompts to evaluate the effectiveness of instruction
   2. When students are done answering the prompt, collect all of the exit slips
   3. Review the exit slips to determine if the instruction needs to be altered to better meet the needs of all        students OR address the questions students have about the material

Content Examples
Science: Exit Slip: Parts of an Ecosystem
​Students will be able to document their learning from today's lesson on ecosystems using an exit ticket. The questions students will be required to answer include: 
1. What are the two main components or factors found in every ecosystem?
2. Provide at least three (3) examples of each factor. 
​Math: In today's lesson, students represented different numbers using base ten blocks. 
Exit ticket:
1. Count the base ten blocks and record your answer below
2. Using base ten blocks (hundreds, tens, and ones) record each given number. For example: 347 (3 hundreds, 4 tens, and 7 ones) 
Reading: Students will be required to fill out a 3-2-1 exit slip at the end of today's lesson on predicting. They will need to write things that they learned about predicting, 2 things they found interesting and 1 question they may still have at the end of the lesson. This will allow students to apply what they have learned by focusing on the learning target (making predictions). 

Resources: 
All About Adolescent Literacy. (n.d.). Retrieved October 5, 2015, from http://www.adlit.org/strategies/19805/ 
Exit slip. (2014, July 3). Retrieved October 5, 2015, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvL3c1he5fw 
Fisher, D., and Frey, N. (2004). Improving Adolescent Literacy: Strategies at Work. New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall.
 How to do Exit Slips - TeachLikeThis. (2013, October 9). Retrieved October 5, 2015, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN-R_KPtKp8 ​
Simon, C. (n.d.). Exit Slips - ReadWriteThink. Retrieved October 5, 2015, from http://www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/strategy-guides/exit-slips-30760.html 
Wagner, Barb. "Sharing Responses to Literature via Exit Slips." Classroom Notes Plus August (2005): 1-3. Web.
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