[LIT] Number/type of grades posted weekly

[Heather Poland]

Lori, that sounds good! I hate giving grades. A lot of my grades are based
on the effort and completeness. I correlate my rubrics to letter grades as
well, which is not really great, but I have to give grades!

On 8/24/06, ljackson <ljackson at gwtc.net> wrote:
>
> I am working with a first year sixth grade teacher with an alternative
> certification.  He asked me for advice on the number and type of grades to
> post for reading and writing.  Together, we worked up rubrics for a single
> grade weekly to be given for:
>
> Daily response to short literature piece used for shared reading (tied to
> highlighting, notation and participation in discussion)
>
> Independent reading/log entries
>
> Letter style response journals
>
> His rubrics are well written and he has correlated them to letter grades,
> which he must assign. I think he is absolutely on the right track, but my
> literacy background is working with primary kids and I didn't have to give
> letter grades.  He is going to get his reading workshop firmly in place
> before getting writing workshop going.  He asked me to gather data from
> middle school teachers.  I have some feedback from our local middle school
> (he teaches in an outlaying school with a class of 9 sixth grade students,
> which will not ever exceed 15). His room is self-contained.
>
> Thank you all in advance for your responses.
>
> Lori
>
>
> On 8/23/06 5:55 PM, "Caroline Mooney" <cmooney at charter.net> wrote:
>
> > Heather,  my students read about 4 books in class per week, and they
> read 4
> > book outside of class per week. On the books they read outside of class,
> > they have to take an AR test-plus-I'm likely to ask them to write about
> it
> > in their reader's notebook. On the books they read in class, I have a GA
> > standards based essay test. I use the AR only to give them some
> > accountability, but the GA standards test tells me they are getting what
> I'm
> > teaching in class.
> >
> > I try to make my reading as close to real life as possible, so we do a
> lot
> > of group work.
> >
> > Caroline
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