The Researcher's Showcase — Final Publication, Visitor Interactions, and Self-Reflection

Setup. Children arrange tri-fold display boards with booklets, evidence panels, and visitor-question cards. Teacher walks the room and names readiness.

• Affirm specific publication elements
• Distribute visitor-question cards
• Set the Showcase tone: 'We are researchers sharing what we found.'

Today is the Researcher's Showcase. The full block is the celebration: 4 visitor interactions per child, each ~10-12 minutes. Visitors include classroom peers, the teacher, classroom aides, family members (if available), and the principal (if invited). For each interaction: deliver your 3-move script, then answer ≥2 visitor questions. Record each question + your answer on a visitor-question card. Use formal register and Tier-3 + Tier-2 vocabulary throughout. After 4 interactions, complete the 3-STARS-1-WISH self-reflection rubric — your assessment-as-learning artifact, which is NOT graded but reviewed by the teacher in a 1:1 conference and used to set your G5 goal.

• Notice formal register throughout. Tier-3 word: oratory. Tier-2 word: source. Specific evidence: '4 times before age nine'. The visitor leaves understanding something specific.

  model Teacher (visitor): 'Tell me about your research.' Child: [3-move script — 90 seconds]. Teacher (visitor): 'What surprised you most in your sources?' Child: 'I was surprised that Sojourner spoke Dutch as her first language. According to McKissack, her enslavers were Dutch, and she did not learn English until she was nine. This shows that her famous oratory in English was a learned skill, not a native one.' Teacher: records on card; thanks child.

  prompt Teacher models a visitor interaction with a child volunteer.

• How many visitor interactions do you complete?
• What 2 things do you record per interaction?

• Complete 4 visitor interactions. For each: deliver 3-move script + answer 2 questions + record both Q&A on note cards.

  scaffold Visitor-question cards (4 per child); display board; booklet; partner-rotation schedule
• Track interactions in a status check — visit chart marks completed interactions.

  scaffold Status check chart at front

M-4-S-WR-22-A Photograph

Photo grid of a Researcher's Showcase classroom setup: 24 tri-fold display boards arranged on desks around the room, each with publication booklet open, evidence panel mounted, visitor-question cards stacked. Banner overhead reads 'Grade 4 Researcher's Showcase'. Print-ready 8.5x11.

• Hand in 4 completed visitor-question cards (8 questions recorded total).
• Complete the 3-stars-1-wish self-reflection rubric and staple inside back cover of publication booklet.

M-4-S-WR-22-B Chart

11x17 reflection template: 3 stars (each with sentence-frame for child's own reflection on a craft move) + 1 wish (sentence-frame for goal-setting for G5). Star icons hand-drawn in gold; wish icon in green. Print-ready, dyslexic-friendly font.

• Whole-class share: each child names ONE Tier-3 word they used at the Showcase.
• Predict: in Grade 5, you will write a multi-paragraph essay with citation (full MLA), then move to literary essays.

• No homework — celebrate. Share your booklet with a family member tonight. Read the 3-stars-1-wish reflection aloud to a parent.