Give guidance and feedback to students' plans, encouraging, refining, and helping them to be responsible for their own learning. Maintain high expectations for completion of chosen options. Summarize by reviewing the whole, bringing students "full circle" to the experience with which the learning began.
Students critiquing & refining book reports.
Objective: Student assessment of their own work. Students will edit, refine and where needed, rework their written book reports and analyze the thank you letters for relevance, originality and effectiveness.
Activity: 1) Students will work with a partner helping each other to analyze the accuracy and effectiveness of their work. 2) In small groups, students write four questions about growth and changes in friendship. Game style - - - Answers - - - Question and answer session.
Assessment: Student involvement and quality/accuracy in assessment.
Friendship
Subject:
English
Grade:
Primary
Concept:
Self Esteem
Bridge:
How Friendships Grow
Content:
Growth and Changes in Friendships: Charlotte's Web