All fine woodworkers know the rule of measuring many times before they make a cut in the wood. Checking your measurement provides success in building and saves money when purchasing material!
School work follows the same good rule! Students should work on the skill of checking their work over before handing it in and never hand in your work undone!
Checking work needs to be done in 3 ways....
I am sure your student can recite it....
"with your eyes, your brain, and both parts of your pencil"
However we need even more help! We need an adult to sit with each child, reread the directions, and reread the answers your student wrote.
We need corrections in captial letters, spelling, sentence writing, and following directions!
The end of the second quarter is near and students are still handing in work that is in need of being "checked over" or is (try not to gasp) blank. Yes...BLANK!!
Please help students grow in the ability to learn what checking work means. Please sit with your student and their work. Reread everything together and apply those wonderful 3 ways to "check" school work.
They will love you for doing it, but maybe not until the next school day when I grade work and "WooooHoooo" their great accomplishments!
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