Assessment tool - Small group discussions - Lit Circles
Type: summative, formative
Purpose: This tool uses small group discussion to generate meaning and display understanding. It is through collective sharing that concepts and ideas are created. Assessment is usually measured by student artifacts, teacher observation or peer assessment.
Rationale: I love this tool as I have used it more than once. It provides different aspects to a topic and helps to differentiate instruction by allowing students to use different multiple intelligences. In a Lit Circle students can write responses or draw responses or use music to make connection to the text. It allows students to make personal connections and peer connections as well. This assessment is flexible and ideal for large texts such as novels. Students monitor themselves with Lit Circle roles and duties. They record their artifacts to be handed in at the end
after self-reflecting on what they have created.
21CLD connection: This type of assessment is key on self-regulation. a teacher sets it up and maybe models it once but students to the most part work through the process. They will collaborate with their own viewpoints and connections to the text and share their findings. A good followup to this is to tap into a reflective journal or blogging on what was done for the day.
Example:
Purpose: This tool uses small group discussion to generate meaning and display understanding. It is through collective sharing that concepts and ideas are created. Assessment is usually measured by student artifacts, teacher observation or peer assessment.
Rationale: I love this tool as I have used it more than once. It provides different aspects to a topic and helps to differentiate instruction by allowing students to use different multiple intelligences. In a Lit Circle students can write responses or draw responses or use music to make connection to the text. It allows students to make personal connections and peer connections as well. This assessment is flexible and ideal for large texts such as novels. Students monitor themselves with Lit Circle roles and duties. They record their artifacts to be handed in at the end
after self-reflecting on what they have created.
21CLD connection: This type of assessment is key on self-regulation. a teacher sets it up and maybe models it once but students to the most part work through the process. They will collaborate with their own viewpoints and connections to the text and share their findings. A good followup to this is to tap into a reflective journal or blogging on what was done for the day.
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Source: Retrieved from http://www.litsite.org/index.cfm?section=Teaching-and-Learning&page=Reading-Workbooks&cat=Middle-School&viewpost=2&contentid=1015&pg=174&crt=3