Prompts for 4th Grade Writing Feedback
Today, I’m working with a fourth grade teacher on how students can give effective feedback to each other about a passage of descriptive writing.
We’re trying a “sandwich” approach: a positive response, one suggestion for refinement, and another positive comment.
We’re going to model and also provide some sentence scaffolds. I’ve written before about how powerful I’ve found the word “because” to be in unpacking student thinking, so we’re trying to fold that into the scaffolds. (Click on the image above for a full-sized slide.
Sometimes, I can prep for my part of a lesson with real ease, and sometimes, I struggle with the words a bit. This was a time when I struggled a bit. What ideas do you have for how we could improve this for next time?
Follow-up at 12:00: Raya read this post and created a handout that could be given to students. Click to enlarge!
