Category: Literacy

Since last meeting, we created a graphic organizer that would help students progress through the success criteria and make sure that they had included all the parts. Graphic Organizer This was helpful to students, but the Level 1, 2 and low 3 students still struggled to understand some of the success criteria–Point, Proof, Explanation and…

  After creating success criteria for writing Newspaper Articles, I found that the students did not understand how to apply each criteria to their own work.  So then, I decided to break down the criteria into smaller chunks through mini-lessons.  The first mini-lesson was to better understand how to write headlines.  I used the 3…