Doll_Assessment+3

During a grammar/language arts lesson, my cooperating teacher had the students go over their homework from the night before orally as a class. The homework was about linking verbs. The students had to read the sentence out loud, identify the linking verb and also identify what words were being linked by the verb. The students did this on a volunteer basis and not every student got a chance to read a sentence and answer to the class. If a student did not answer the question correctly, the teacher would read the sentence with the student and break it down into the parts they needed to look for. If after this the student still did not answer the question correctly, the teacher would ask for another volunteer to answer the question and also to explain why they answered it the way they did.

The students read all the questions and answers and the teacher monitored the answers to make sure they were correct. If they weren’t, she made sure to stop and go over it and make sure everyone understood before moving on to the next question. Out of the 20 sentences they went over, only 3 sentences were answered incorrectly the first time they were attempted. The students self corrected these and handed them in for a homework grade of either a check, check plus, or check minus.

This is a good assignment to use as a checkpoint to see if students understand the lesson being taught, in this case the linking verbs. The reason I feel this is a good lesson is because each lesson is different and students need to really understand what a linking verb is and what it links in order to answer question. This is an assignment that a teacher can tell if a student is getting the idea or guessing what the answers are. The reason I believe this is because a pattern is set up between the linking verbs and words it links and if a student is all over the place with answers, then the teacher can get an understanding of their level of comprehension. The only thing I disagree with is using a check, check plus, and check minus system. No where was it stated to the students how many wrong out of the total equates to which check. I feel like students can get the worksheet back with one of these checks and not understand why. I feel if it were just a check to make sure all the questions were done and attempted, then the student should get a check for completing them all or a check minus if all were not attempted. If the number correct counts, then the students should know before hand how many wrong equates to what check level.

Kaitlyn