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Assessment Toolbox teaching resource preview
Learning reflection

Assessment Toolbox

A set of six printable assessment and observation forms for teachers to track student self-assessment, conversational skills, writing self-checks, and reading conference notes.

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Editing Checklist for Self and Peer teaching resource preview
Writing & revisionSocial skills & habits

Editing Checklist for Self and Peer

This editing checklist provides self-edit and peer-edit columns for spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar and formatting. Students check their drafts, exchange feedback and name the peer editor. Choose criteria appropriate to the writing task and teach them first. Clarify the source’s comma advice using sentence structure and context, as explained in the teaching notes.

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Student Led Conference Form teaching resource preview
Learning reflection

Student Led Conference Form

A student-led parent-teacher-student conference form that students complete in advance, allowing them to lead or participate in discussing their own progress, likes/dislikes, behavior self-assessment, and goals during conference night.

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Microsoft Word
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1–5
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End-of-Elementary Reflection Essay teaching resource preview
Learning reflectionWriting & revision

End-of-Elementary Reflection Essay

A scaffolded writing resource guiding Grade 4-6 students through planning and drafting a 5-paragraph formal reflective essay about their elementary school experience, for the transition to middle school.

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4–6
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Narrative Rubric – Student & Peer Self-Assessment teaching resource preview
Learning reflectionSocial skills & habits

Narrative Rubric – Student & Peer Self-Assessment

Give a peer editor this rubric alongside a completed narrative. After reading twice, the editor highlights qualities in column A that the writer uses consistently, then circles criteria that need continued practice. The criteria focus attention on character development and narrative craft as well as grammar and style. A separate peer editing checklist can support another pass through writing mechanics.

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4–7
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Marzano's Levels of Understanding – Poster & Rubric teaching resource preview
Learning reflection

Marzano's Levels of Understanding – Poster & Rubric

Marzano's Levels of Understanding rubric translates the 0-4 proficiency scale into student-friendly language, describing what a learner can do at each level — from 'I don't know, and can't do any part of the learning target' at 0 up to 'I know and can do the learning target well enough that I can make connections that weren't taught to me' at 4. The poster pages are formatted to be enlarged for a wall display, giving the class a shared reference for talking about progress toward a target. A companion self- or teacher-assessment form asks students to record their name and the specific learning target, then circle a score from 0 to 4 on the same descriptive scale and add written comments. Because the scale itself is content-free, the resource works with any subject or grade level rather than teaching a specific skill.

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COVID-19 Reflection Essay teaching resource preview
Learning reflectionWriting & revision

COVID-19 Reflection Essay

Guide students through writing a formal 5-paragraph reflective essay on their personal experience of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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6–12
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4th Grade Writing Rubric Bundle – With Checklists teaching resource preview
Writing & revision

4th Grade Writing Rubric Bundle – With Checklists

Three writing rubric sets — narrative , informative, and opinion — each pair a student-facing checklist describing what an 'excellent' response looks like across four or five traits with a five-point teacher grading guideline spelling out the difference between an 'Excellent' and a 'Needs Improvement' response, trait by trait. Each set includes scorecards with rating and comment spaces in bordered and unbordered layouts. Check and adapt the narrative and opinion scorecard headings to match the respective rubric before grading. All three rubrics use a consistent 1-5 scale (Excellent, Good, Satisfactory, Needs Improvement, Inadequate) but trait definitions and counts differ across the three genres.

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4
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Read it Aloud Activity teaching resource preview
Subject & project rubrics

Read it Aloud Activity

A fluency-practice activity in which students record themselves reading a Three Little Pigs script aloud and self-assess using a checklist.

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Pre-K, 1–3
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Research Organizer & Essay Assignment: Duke Ellington teaching resource preview
Writing & revision

Research Organizer & Essay Assignment: Duke Ellington

Guides students through independent biographical research on Duke Ellington and the writing of a 5-paragraph research essay, using a graphic-organizer worksheet, a peer/self writing-tips checklist, and a scored essay rubric.

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8–12
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Balancing Chemical Equations Explained - Middle School Science teaching resource preview
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Balancing Chemical Equations Explained - Middle School Science

A middle/high school chemistry resource teaching how to balance chemical equations, using an animated PowerPoint with worked examples, plus supporting worksheets, an anticipation guide, a pupil progress checklist, and an answers/mark-scheme PowerPoint for self or peer assessment.

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Level
6–9
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