In any writing work, including dictations, students will now be asked to correct their own mistake by looking at the teacher's feedback written in acronyms and signs. These are explicitly taught (they will be introduced gradually) in class and will be shown in the classroom on a chart paper for their reference. This is an effective way for teachers to give quick and thorough feedback on student writing and it helps students to learn to use feedback to improve work and monitor their strength and areas of improvement in writing.
Check mark (V) - Students have correctly used the target words in dictation, subject specific vocabulary or focus words in writing.
Underlined words and arrows - These words give clues (such as grammatical agreement) to students to correct their own mistakes.
Wavy underlined words or phrases - Awkward word choice or phrases that do not fit / hard to understand.
Small check marks within a word - there need to be a space.
Curved lines connecting two words - these two words need to be written without a space.
Circled and slashed (/) - not necessary
Arrows - clue for the grammatical agreement (gender and number)
N (nombre)- the number of the word is incorrect (singular vs. plural)
G (genre) - the gender of the word is incorrect (masculine vs. feminine)
Circled or/and O (orthographe) - spelling mistake
H (homophone) - use of homophone (same pronunciation but different spelling and meaning)
inf (infinitif) - the verb needs to be in the dictionary form that end ends in either -er, -re, or ir.
p.p. (participe passé) - the verb needs to be in past participate form that ends usually in -é, is, u, or i.
M (majuscule) - Upper case
m (miniscule) - Lower case
Ponc (ponctuation) - Punctuation
A (accent) - accent (location or type)
A sticker or a star - great application of new/interesting words.
This system will be revised throughout the year.