Checklists—A tool for inputting information

A significant problem for SLD students is organizing information and tracking steps within an assignment.  Checklists can be useful tools to helping students keep track of this information.  The following examples simply add a checkbox, or line, for the student to check off what he or she has already accomplished.  This breaks assignments and tasks into manageable pieces for the student.

Course Calendar as a Checklist | Reflection Essay Evaluation Checklist


Course Calendar  

Come to class, having read and completed the assignments for that date.  Use the check-off list to help you organize your homework and what to bring to class

Date

Assignment

W 9/27

Topic for day’s discussion: Organizing Ideas

_____  Read Aims, pp. 129-133
_____  Complete exercises on pp. 134-135
_____  Bring to class outline of Informative Paper

F 9/29

Topic for day’s discussion: Review Thesis Statement

_____  Read Aims, pp. 57-63
_____  Bring to class copy of thesis statement from your Informative Paper

 

Reflection Essay Evaluation Sheet

For this writing assignment, recall an experience you’ve had that has been significant to you - one that has changed the way you are or the way you think about things.  Check off each step as you evaluate your paper.  Your paper should:

q focus on one specific experience.  Your experience should cover a fairly short time frame (preferably one day or a few hours). 

q have an implied thesis. This means your thesis won’t be written down in the essay, but the readers will be able to figure out specifically what you are trying to show.  My experience might be my senior prom, but my thesis would be more specific:  Just because a boy is popular doesn’t mean that he is a nice person.

q have vivid details and description.  Provide your readers with all the details they’ll need to see what happened.

q show why this experience is significant.  Don’t just tell us that it was important; show it by a) showing us what your ideas/beliefs/attitudes were before the experience, b) showing what changed your attitudes, and c) showing how you were different after this experience. 

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