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After finishing the books they were reading in reading groups, students had to write a response that was graded by the teacher. The students had to answer the question “Did you like the book?” They needed to give at least three examples to support their answers.

The students were left to write the prompt by themselves and hand it in to the teacher. She then gave the response either a check minus, check, or check plus. As the students handed them into her, she looked them over quickly and handed them back to the students if she felt they did not answer the question fully. Many of the prompts were checks.

I personally feel that this is not a very good assessment. Although it may help students practice answering a question and finding evidence to support their answer, I don’t think this is a very good assessment to grade students on. The students were never given guidelines on what types of examples to choose, so I don’t know how a teacher could say if their answer is right or wrong. A student could say I liked the book because the main character’s name was Kate. This is found in the book and is true and may be a reason why they liked the book, but I feel like a teacher would mark this as not a true example of reasons for liking or disliking the book. I feel that the guidelines were not set for the students about how they would be graded. I also feel it does not accurately reflect what the students actually comprehended from the story. It does not show whether they understood what happened or if they understood the theme or message from the story, which are both big parts of reading.

Kaitlyn