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.

Have the children work in pairs reading their stories t

Objective: To have the children practice getting feedback and refining their work.


Activity: Have the children work in pairs reading their stories to each other and then refining their work.

Assessment: Differences between first and last drafts; were they able to edit their work and make changes that improved the final product
to each other and then refining their work.