How to evaluate your activities for children

For reading and writing activities:


1.       Skills:
What sub-skills at reading and/or writing were the activities aiming to improve? Was it effective? Why? /why not?
2.       Meaning:
Were the activities meaningful for the children? In what way? How did this influence their response?
3.       Control: how controlled was the activity? Dis the children need more or less guidance to be able to work independently?
4.       Reasons for reading/writing:
Were these made clear to the children? Were they relevant? In case of writing, did the children have sense of who they were writing for?
5.       Modelling strategies:
Was there an opportunity for you to explicitly model reading and/or writing strategies and processes with the children? What impact did this have?
6.       Feedback and correction:
How did you give children feedback on their written work? Did you respond to their written work?
Did you respond to their meaning as well as their language? Do you think the feedback will motivate the children to want to write in future?




For listen and speaking activities:

1.       Motivate:
Did children want to listen?
Speak during the activities? Why? Why not?
2.       Purpose:
Was the purpose of the activities clear?
Was it a purpose that the children could relate to?
3.       Preparation:
Was the language demand of the activity appropriate?
Was here sufficient linguistic preparation and practice beforehand (if necessary) to enable the children to do the activity?
4.       Learning support:
What supports did you give to help children understand and/or use language during the activity?
Was the learning support appropriate?
5.       Personalization:
Did the activity provide and opportunity for personalization?
If so, how did this affect the children’s response?
6.       Timing:
Was the activity a suitable length to sustain interest and involvement?

Did it need to be timed?

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