When they are finished, they can work on their journal entries or private dictionary. The teacher will assess student contribution to group and class discussions. The teacher will observe students as they read aloud to their peers. The teacher will assess the students' ability to follow directions. Add 2 words that they found in today's chapters to their dictionary.
Students are welcome to add more words to their dictionaries.
This author prefers to assess the students' work on the basis of neatness, ability to follow directions, and creativity and relevance of their maxim to their lives and those of their peers. When the students hand in their projects, use colorful yarn to tie them all together. Tie them in a ladder style. That is, loop the yarn through the bottom of one and then through the top of the next. This allows the projects to be hung on a wall.