Make Jan seeks new challenges into a request for parental support by changing it to read Please encourage Jan to seek new challenges. Sam cooperates consistently with others becomes Sam needs to cooperate more consistently with others, and Sally uses vivid language in writing may instead read With practice, Sally will learn to use vivid language in her writing. Turn the words around a bit, and you will transform each into a goal for a child to work toward. You can also use our statements to indicate a need for improvement. You've reached the end of another grading period, and what could be more daunting than the task of composing insightful, original, and unique comments about every child in your class? The following positive statements will help you tailor your comments to specific children and highlight their strengths. Struggling Students? Check out our Needs Improvement Report Card Comments for even more comments!

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It's report card time and you face the prospect of writing constructive, insightful, and original comments on a couple dozen report cards or more. Show students examples of newspaper headlines and articles.Įvaluate students' headlines and articles. For younger students, begin the lesson by discussing the meanings of the words headlines and article. Variations: Have students write stories using words cut from tabloid headlines.

Compile the finished stories into a class 'newspaper.'.

Have each student write a short story or an article to go with the headline.

Tell students to put the words together to form a headline and attach the headline to a sheet of paper using tape, glue, or paste.

Put a handful of words on each student's desk, or have each student pull at least five words out of the bag.

Cut apart the words in each headline, and put them in a large paper bag.

Prior to the lesson, collect newspaper headlines for several days.

For students: paper pens tape, glue, or paste.

For teacher: newspapers, scissors, large paper bag.

Newspaper, headlines, news, stories, articles, creative writing Students demonstrateĬreative thinking and creative writing skills. Students put together words to create headlines. Students create stories using words cut from newspaper headlines.

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