What is the purpose of the Closure component in a lesson plan?The closure is intended to reinforce the major points in the lesson that students are expected to have learned. It brings students' attention back to the original lesson objective, and what a teacher learns from the closure also can be used as an assessment tool. Here are two sites that discuss closure in a lesson. This could be a two-sentence summary about the main points of a lesson, a short whiteboard or interactive clicker quiz, an exit pass, a journal entry, etc.
What is the purpose of an Anticipatory Set in a typical lesson plan?
The anticipatory set is the "attention getter" of the lesson and introduces the topic about which you will teach. It usually takes the form of a question, an activity or similar set-up in which some prior knowledge/learning is elicited and/or some unknown factor is introduced to help the student mentally/physically get ready for the upcoming lesson. In addition to the site mentioned above in the closure segment, this site also offers information about anticipatory set. Examples of an anticipatory set include problems or open-ended questions on the board as students enter the classroom, a journal entry, and reading a book or literacy piece related to the subject at hand.
This site, at the bottom, discusses the The Madeline Hunter Lesson Design Model, which also includes brief descriptions of anticipatory sets and closure.
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