Even though the folks who commented on it said it was okay the way it was, I wasn't happy with the rubric/checklist I created for my students to use for the personal narrative unit of study we have coming up. Therefore, I spent about 90 minutes tinkering with it tonight and came up with this.… Continue reading Updated Rubric and Checklist for Personal Narratives
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Feedback Request
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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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
