We have organized our 125 report card comments by category. There you will find the right words to keep your comments fresh and accurate. Whether you are tweaking statements from this page or creating original ones, check out our Report Card Thesaurus that contains a list of appropriate adjectives and adverbs. 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! Here are 125 positive report card comments for you to use and adapt! 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. All subjects! (Grades 3-12)Īdapt the game of Concentration to review hundreds of skills. Revive Reviews With Student-Created Study Guidesīuild note-taking and outlining skills as students create unit Study Guides for their classmates. In this game, students advance the bases as they give correct answers to review questions. This small-group activity is a fun way for students to review new skills or prep for an end-of-unit test. Multiple choice review questions are center stage in this fun activity that can be used to review any subject matter, any skill. (Appropriate grade levels for each lesson appear in parentheses.) Reminder: Some of these templates might take as much as 30 or more seconds to load.Ĭlick each of the five lesson headlines below for a complete teaching resource. And they love PowerPoint too! Why not combine the two and create PowerPoint games that are sure to engage your students? If your students are older and have a little technical know-how, consider having them create PowerPoint games that younger students in the school can actually use! Here are a few templates to get you going. Looking for a place to start? Kids love games shows. This week Education World offers five lessons (and a sidebar of hundreds of additional ideas) to spice up boring reviews and tedious skill practice sessions.
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