There are also alternative assessment activities and strategies that keep the students more engaged. Before you have the students do an activity first come up with the goal or standard you want them to hit then come up with a creative assessment. An example of this is if you want them to tell you a biography of an historical person, then the students could make an obituary of that person or a Facebook page. The Facebook page could include where they’re from, their age, family members, events in their lives and what pictures they thought they would post. If you …show more content…
There many types of graphic organizers. There’s a sandwich chart, were the topic is written on the top bun and details are the middle and bottom bun is the conclusion sentence. There is also a clock were you write details in time order. There is also a web, which I used to write this paper. I start with the main topic in the middle then web out of the supporting details. The web can go farther with bubbles coming off the supporting details of examples of that detail. There is also an ice cream cone graphic organizer with topic as cone and details as scoops going up. For the younger students I plan on using the sense chart. Put a topic on top and have student describe topic by their sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. (Graphic organizer handouts from workshop pgs.