Align student documents with rubric indicators
Updated: May 16, 2005
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Maximize student learning while minimizing your paper correcting time by using the Microsoft Office Word Highlight tool with your next writing project.
You may base your student assignments on certain elements and techniques to improve their writing skills. For increased emphasis, create assessment rubrics to stress these elements and techniques, and then have students identify them in their drafts by highlighting them in Word. This serves as a self-check for your students and reduces the time you spend reviewing each student’s writing.
In an essay, a teacher might focus on transitions. The students could highlight their transitions to help show that they know what a transition is and where it belongs. In a creative writing assignment, students could highlight in yellow dependent clauses that start a sentence, and then use a thesaurus to find stronger verbs in blue. Highlighting rubric elements enables students, peer reviewers, and you to all focus on the same skills.
Academic standards
| • | Communication skills |
| • | Communication strategies |
ISTE NETS Standards for Students
| • | Technology productivity tools |
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