Checklist and Rubric Originally uploaded by teachergal I met with my grade-level colleagues today who, as always, push my thinking. Kate suggested creating a more kid-friendly rubric for the students to use on their first graded assignment of the school year. Hence, we worked together to create this assessment rubric and checklist of sorts. It's… Continue reading Feedback Request
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Rubrics
Have you heard of RubiStar4Teachers? It's a free website that allows teachers to customize pre-fab rubrics or create their own. Once you've finished your masterpiece (er, rubric), you can either save it online, which I did with MANY of my rubrics, or you can save the rubric on your computer as an Excel Document. They… Continue reading Rubrics
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Practicing Written Responses to Texts
My students will be taking the NECAP Reading Test this-coming week. I've been trying to prepare them for the written responses to reading they'll be doing. Therefore, I've tried to create some of my own materials. Here's one thing I did. First, we read Lenore Look's book Uncle Peter's Amazing Chinese Wedding. Second, we talked… Continue reading Practicing Written Responses to Texts
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Assessing Narrative Writing
I went to the TCRWP Website in order to link my last post. While I was there I noticed that the K-8 Continuum for Assessing Narrative Writing has been posted on the public part of the Project's Website. It is NOT for duplication. This document is still a work in progress, at it was last… Continue reading Assessing Narrative Writing
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Working Lunch: Checking Writer’s Notebooks
It's October and that means that it's time for me to start checking my students' writer's notebooks once/week. Today was the first day of it. (I'm using the rubric I used last year, which is loosely based off of the work of Aimee Buckner.) 1 of the 4 students was absent (who was supposed to… Continue reading Working Lunch: Checking Writer’s Notebooks
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organizing.
Today I had a few moments to spare, so I worked on organizing my focus lesson binders. I pulled all my k-1 lessons and put them in a separate binder. I organized it according to Carl Anderson's qualities of writing: Meaning Genre Structure Detail Voice Conventions + Process & what Carl terms "Initiative" (determining purpose, genre,… Continue reading organizing.
