Guide your students to use a Big6 Evaluation Checklist to analyze their own work before they turn it in. This month we’d like to highlight some handy Big6 checklists from the Big6 Kids Feature Stories section.

CLICK HERE to find the 5 Big6 Checklists

in “Feature Section: Evaluation”

Big6 Checklist titles:

Checklist for Evaluating a Writing Assignment. Grades 7 - 12

Checklist for Evaluating a Writing Assignment. Grades 3 - 6

Checklist for Evaluating a Science Fair Project

Checklist for Completing Any Assignment

Checklist for Evaluating the Big6 Process

Big6 Checklists in “Feature: Evaluation” by Barbara Jansen. Big6.com/kids (2003)

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This month we’re featuring one page from The Super3: Information Skills for Young Learners(2007) book to help emerging writers organize, accomplish, and reflect on creative writing projects. Find our free download here!

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Big6™ Basics: Building Research Skills Using Technology and the Big6

The latest World Almanac Education research skills kit and the first Big6 program created for direct use by students

This unique research skills kit has been designed exclusively to help students learn the Big6 process and apply it in the context of existing classroom assignments. The featured text, Internet Power Research Using the Big6 Approach, gives practical examples of the Big6 approach to using information. Reproducible worksheets can be used with existing lessons, projects, papers, and homework to teach students specific skills to help them tackle assignments in any subject. Students will learn an effective, systematic approach to solving problems, making decisions, and completing any research task.

Each kit features 15 or 25 paperback copies of Internet Power Research Using the Big6 Approach, reproducible worksheets, and a teacher’s guide. Upgrade to a deluxe kit and get a copy of The Definitive Big6™ Workshop Handbook and a Big6 Poster and poster cards. It’s everything you need to help students improve their technology and information literacy and expand their research capabilities.

Grade Level: Gr 4-6
Library Price: $149.95
Item #: 30089
Give your students hands-on Big6 experience: click here or call World Almanac Education, 800-321-1147 to place your order.

Big6 Basics Blackline Masters
By integrating Big6™ Basics Blackline Masters into existing lessons, students will learn specific skills to help them tackle assignments in any subject. Each of the more than 30 worksheets thoroughly examines a different stage or sub-stage of the Big6 method. Students will learn an effective, systematic approach that will help them solve problems, make decisions, and complete any research task.

Copyright: 2005
Grade Level: Gr 4-6
Pages: 24
Library Price: $24.95
Item #: 30151

Give your students hands-on Big6 experience: click here or call World Almanac Education, 800-321-1147 to place your order.

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See our collection of free materials you may share with students or anyone who would like to learn more about the Big6 Skills.

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Have your students begin their next long-term paper with the Big6 Research Paper Organizer! Watch your students’ confidence and work improve with organization and planning!

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Related Big6 Skills: Big6 #1 – Task Definition

Purpose: The purpose of the Memory Minder tool is to aid students in remembering – before they go home at the end of the school day – what information or materials they need to complete their homework.

Learning Contexts: This tool is applicable across subject areas in Grades 3 and up when students may have difficulty preparing for successful completion of their homework assignments.

Discussion: Teachers often assume that students understand immediately the teacher’s expectations when they are presented with assignments and know automatically what materials are necessary to complete those assignments. Students typically are reluctant to ask for clarification, and rely instead on memory or on other students for further information. This tool was created as a reminder about assignments and necessary materials to encourage personal responsibility. By using this tool, students practice and become familiar with asking themselves the questions necessary to prepare to successfully complete their homework. The ultimate goal is for students to practice repeatedly until they become self-sufficient in understanding the process of clarifying homework assignments and preparing the materials necessary for completion.

Sample in Context: The teacher gives an assignment verbally either with or without a handout. Students record the assignment on their agenda (calendar/planner) where the Memory Minder is attached. The student is prompted by the tool to again define the assigned homework, self-check for comprehension of the assignment’s parameters, decide whether or not to ask for clarification from the teacher, and to self-check for materials necessary to successfully complete the assignment. Repeated practice should make the student adept at self-checking and help him or her to consistently reach success in completing assigned homework.

Memory Minder:

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This feature section will help you get organized and complete an assigned written paper or report. Writing can be a lot of fun if you approach it in an organized way. Here you will find links to the writing process and some great tools.

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This feature section will help you get organized and complete an assigned written paper or report. Writing can be a lot of fun if you approach it in an organized way. Here you will find links to the writing process and some great tools.

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Use these helpful handouts to introduce the Big6 or Super3 to students, parents, or anyone who is new to the Big6 Skills.

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Plan your next writing assignment with this organizer!

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