Assessment possibilities:

Journal

• Learners will keep journals (on cassette tape or in writing) to reflect on the theme.

Portfolio

• Learners will keep in their portfolios all of the information that they have gathered about bullying.

Learning log

• Learners will keep learning log records of the people they have interviewed and the other research sources they have used as they learn about bullying.

Checklist

• Level 1 learners will keep track of the phonics and sight words they learn as they work with language experience stories. Levels 2 and 3 learners will keep track of the Conventions of English they learn as they work with the language experience stories.

Self-assessment rating scale

• Learners will use a rating scale to assess their own group co-operation skills.

Rating scale

• In addition to the rating scale used for self-assessment, a scale will be used to rate the computer skills of learners who have used the Internet for research about bullying, and those who have used the word processor to type research or letters.

Rubric

• For those learners who need to have their writing graded, a rubric will be used to assess the letters that are sent to the day care director and school principal.