Assessment of the Conversations Across time

Usefulness of the Reading Strategy

Conversation across time is an essential reading strategy that engages students to think critically about what they read. This strategy can be evaluated through the use of journals as a form of formative assessment. Students will be required to create a journal entry based on what they learnt and discussed in class on the theme of friendship in the various novels. Journals are very useful in evaluating students especially when they are asked to speak about their experiences. It is an effective strategy in that it gives the students who are shy and do not speak in the classroom an opportunity to express their thoughts on paper. Students will also be aware that their entries are not graded and thus, they are able to express themselves on paper fully. Therefore, it gives the teacher an opportunity to monitor students understanding of the concepts taught or what was discussed in the classroom. Thus, journals can be used as a form of assessment of conversations across time as a teaching stategy.