Writing excellent report card comments as a middle school language arts teacher can be a struggle and a challenge, especially for teachers who do not enjoy writing. Language arts is definitely a complex subject in which to report progress. It includes reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. I have spent hours and hours over 25 years developing and refining clear and thoughtful report card comments. It is necessary to reflect student progress and give feedback to middle school parents.
This is a set of trimester ending comments for sixth grade language arts classes that total 63 varied students, including ESL, weak students, average students, and gifted students. It covers their reading, writing, and other language arts skills as well as attitude and effort. There are 10,800 words of comments in this massive and useful document, and I know you will find some nuggets that you can pull and apply to your own students. Tweak, cut and paste, and borrow from my examples for your students as you write your own comments. Why re-invent the wheel?
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A HUGE time saver. Thank you. :)
February 13, 2012
useful
February 5, 2012
The comments are thoroughly developed; however, I would have found this Report Card Bank to be more user-friendly the content was organized into categories, ie: Reading, Writing, Listening, Public Speaking, etc. along with the division of Strong, Satisfactory, Needs Improvement. (including goals & strategies to accomplish those goals)
January 28, 2010
If I had forty hours to invest in doing that organization of the material I would, however, I don't so that is why my price for this document is in fact extremely reasonable. If you are willing to spend more then at $29.95 you can buy a competing product on TPT. I thank you for your comments.
January 31, 2010
Help
Hi Mark,
I was wondering if your comments are just for end of the year? I teach 5th and 6th grade English and need 2nd trimester comments.
Thanks so much!
Sincerely,
Ann Greenfield
February 12, 2010
The comments are for the end of a trimester, or one-third of the year. They are not summative, year ending comments.
February 18, 2010
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