Language Arts Activity
Peer-Response Form

Directions:

1. Ask your partners to listen carefully as you read your rough draft aloud.
2. Ask your partners to help you improve your writing by telling you the answers to the questions below.
3. Write notes about what your partners say.
a. What did you like best about my rough draft?


b. What did you have the hardest time understanding about my rough draft?
 

c. What can you suggest that I do to improve my rough draft?

4. Exchange rough drafts with a partner.
a. In pencil, place a check mark near any mechanical, spelling, or grammatical constructions   about which you are uncertain.
b. Return the papers and & check your own.
c. Ask your partner for clarification if you do not understand or agree with the comments on   your paper.
d. Be sure to make notes you want to remember when writing your revision.

Student Pages

Authors: Jill Mueller (miata@www.com) and Pat Pentek (ppentek@inil.com) West Chicago Middle School, West Chicago, Illinois with permission granted from Russell G. Wright, Ed.D., Director of Event-Based Science Project, Rockville, Maryland, 20850. Created: Fall 1996 Updated December 14, 1996. Created for The Fermilab LInC sponsored by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Education Office , and Friends of Fermilab and the Illinois State Board of Education.
URL: http://www-ed.fnal.gov/linc/fall96/projects/jmueller/LA1peer.htm