Celebrating Personal Successes
Engaging Students in Self-Assessment (Virtual Tour)
Stage of Literacy Development:
Stage 2: Consolidation / FluencyStage 3: Literacy for Growth
Ages:
7-12
Grade Range:
3rd 4th 5th 6thFood Groups:
Primary: Assessment Secondary: Classroom Organization & Time Management
Transcript
Through data notebooks students monitor their own progress and set goals for themselves in both reading and in writing. They create a graph of their goals for themselves for their next reading and they set stars and wishes of things that they think they did well and things that they need work on next time for their work. This helps them to become better readers as they apply these strategies to the next time they are reading and writing.
Related References
Additional Links:
Reading Rockets, Types of Informal Classroom-based Assessment: http://www.readingrockets.org/article/types-informal-classroom-based-assessment
Activity Objective
The goal of Celebrating Personal Successes: Engaging Students in Self-Assessment (Virtual Tour) is to create a differentiated learning experience for each student in the classroom. Independence is fostered by teaching students how to develop and track goals for reading and writing by assessing their own successes and reflecting on aspects that they could improve on.
Quick Tips
Additional Comments:
- Placing student self-evaluations in an assessment portfolio can be useful for parent-teacher communications, as they display student thinking and progress.
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