We are four weeks into the school year. Our reading classes are focusing on a few specific standards. The first one is learning language in context; the second is reading a variety of text; the third is reading closely; and the last couple are speaking and listening. I was really deliberate in creating experiences with each standard for students early in the quarter so that we would have lots of opportunity to practice and explore these standards including how they can help us develop as readers and human beings. I was also deliberate about helping students create artifacts of their learning and experiences so that we could point to our growth as readers, which means evidence of our learning.
So at this point in the learning process, it is important to take a step back and see what we have, what we’ve done, and how we are growing or maybe not growing as readers.
As a teacher, this is an important time for me to see what students need and for me to be honest about what parts of my instruction or planning have not been as effective as I had hoped.
This video is my attempt to support students in gathering their evidence, considering the standards, and reflecting on their reading lives. It is also how I hope we can set goals together for the remainder of the quarter.
I’d love to hear how you are approaching reflection and progress assessment in your classroom.
Student example:https://docs.google.com/a/ccsd15.net/presentation/d/1WJQOQk33VLAjhQv_bTlNP5eHkVcnphvryPSrI6v0lJ4/edit?usp=drive_web
I love this! It’s great that the responsibility for reflection on progress is shifted to the student. This assignment makes the standards clear to the student.
What does the google form look like that students used to enter their daily reading progress?
What grade level are the students that you work with?
Here is a link to the google form student made.
https://docs.google.com/a/ccsd15.net/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc1iZja_MmfzRFnCLQPC7UrdEctZBPKw8U6MhW9dDsX3iXHBA/viewform
Here is a finished slide show from a 7th grader: https://docs.google.com/a/ccsd15.net/presentation/d/1WJQOQk33VLAjhQv_bTlNP5eHkVcnphvryPSrI6v0lJ4/edit?usp=drive_web
I love this idea of a midterm reflection! Do you send the Google slide presentation you made to your kids via Classroom for them to use as a template? Do they add speech to theirs?
Yes, I posted this template on classroom. Students made a copy and worked on it in class. I did a mini lesson on hyperlinks and screen shots with chromebooks. For the midterm, they won’t narrate their slides with screencastify, but they’ll upate this project at the end of the term to show growth and add narrate the changes from say the midterm book read to the end of term books read. Let me know how it goes if you try it.