SAR Work Coming Home Today
September 30, 2009 | Posted in: Class Updates
SAR stands for Short Answer Response. It is a form of open-ended activity in which students must write a thorough response in a limited amount of space. This limit helps students to focus their responses in order to avoid a LONG response in which they “through everything but the kitchen sink” into a response in hopes of including valuable detail. In third grade, students learned about the importance of including detail and supportive evidence. Now, in fourth grade, we are focusing on being selective when choosing what pieces of supportive detail will best support the response.
You will see two drafts coming home today. The first (written on the worksheet) is ungraded. We reviewed several anonymous SARs and discussed the characteristics of a quality SAR. Then, students revised their SARs (on lined paper). This second draft is the one that I graded. Students were assessed on a scale of 0, 1, or 2. (If you are relating that to the report card scale, a 0 would be a B, a 1 would be a D, and a 2 would be an S.) For more details on how your child was evaluated, please click on the parent resources link on the left-hand sidebar and visit the Rubrics page.
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