4×4 Feedback

A simple feedback tool that encourages collaboration when it comes to peer assessment. Provide students with a 4 box feedback grid and get them to compare work, then provide one another with feedback from 4 different peers. This can be varied by focusing on a particular skill or assessment objective, or by suggesting 4 different …

Uplifting sentences

A great technique to get children to work on improving the quality of their responses by improving a sentence either together or on their own. See below for two versions, one with a points system attached to focus on subject specific terminology. Uplifting sentences

Editing tabs

Pupils improve an aspect of their work/paragraph and refine work overlaying or redoing the original work with a piece of paper. Alternatively focus on an aspect of writing identified by a coloured box that they have to edit and improve.