Inquiry: Can the children select their next step in writing?
Last week I decided I would like children to take notice of their co-constructed success criteria and to identify their next learning step.
How will I go about this?
When they are finished their story children will highlight which success criteria they have included into their writing. The one that is left un-highlighted will become their next step.
2/9/15
How's it going? ... Great!! Children are able to tell me what their next step is and write it into their books.
Next Step: do they apply their next step into their next lot of writing or do I get them to add a sentence to that same story to address their next step?
25/09/15
Here is one way I addressed - What to do with my Next Step:
This example of work shows a 3 sequential picture plan of Maui and the Stars. The WALT was to retell a Maori Legend. I found that most of the class had not used time connectives in their last recount and their Next Steps that they identified was to write time connectives....Hence their challenge in this piece of writing was to use the time connectives that they had pre-selected and recorded on their plan.
Pre-selected time connectives: First / Next / Finally
It worked as I could say throughout the lesson have you included what is in your plan? and most children could say yes and if not they quickly inserted the time connector.
2/9/15
How's it going? ... Great!! Children are able to tell me what their next step is and write it into their books.
The children write NS (stands for Next step) then they write down what they missed out of their story according to their success criteria. This photo shows their WALT and Co-constructed Success Criteria on the right of the picture, this child has highlighted the aspects they have included in their story and has chosen to focus on question marks and conjunctions next time.
Next Step: do they apply their next step into their next lot of writing or do I get them to add a sentence to that same story to address their next step?
25/09/15
Here is one way I addressed - What to do with my Next Step:
This example of work shows a 3 sequential picture plan of Maui and the Stars. The WALT was to retell a Maori Legend. I found that most of the class had not used time connectives in their last recount and their Next Steps that they identified was to write time connectives....Hence their challenge in this piece of writing was to use the time connectives that they had pre-selected and recorded on their plan.
Pre-selected time connectives: First / Next / Finally
It worked as I could say throughout the lesson have you included what is in your plan? and most children could say yes and if not they quickly inserted the time connector.
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