After finishing up the book yesterday I wanted to introduce the student to writing book critiques. This is a new topic for them. I outlined the basics of what a critique might look like. The summary of the story, what a reader liked, what they didn’t like, or parts of the book that could have been changed. I had the students rate Katie’s Trunk and give supporting details as to why they thought the way they did. I am not entirely sure why they didn’t get the concept of supporting details because we also talked about it this week during Social Studies. Yesterday, everyone was able to summarize the story and give key details as to what happened while reading. I was surprise that the class average for the book was 2 stars. I should have asked them about a book they would’ve give five stars too and have them compare and contrast. It was interesting to see how the influence of one student could sway the other student’s opinions. Once the class clown said the book was boring it was all downhill from there (even though for the past two days they didnt want to stop reading the text). The good reads app was not connecting to their internet, so I couldn’t connect what we were doing in class with real- world application for them to see how other’s write reviews. This time together felt very rushed. I gathered their language arts folders with all of the works for the week. I feel like this is a fairly accurate assessment of what the students knew and how much effort they put into their work. You can see which students did their work based on how much they participated in class.
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