Kinesthetic Assessment

Description:
This strategy asks students to create sentences that reflect content studied. Students like the element of chance that is involved.


How to Use the Strategy:

1. Prepare a set of nine index cards for each student. On each card, write a vocabulary term from the content the class is studying. **You can use the same words for all students, or you can further differentiate by selecting different words for certain individuals or groups.
   
2. Give a complete set to each student.
   
3. Each student shuffles his cards and lays them out in a grid pattern, with three rows of three cards each.
   
4. Each student writes 8 sentences using the words. Three sentences must use the words in the three horizontal rows (one sentence for the words in each row); three sentences must use the words in the vertical columns (again, one sentence for each column); and two sentences must use the three-card diagonals (one left to right and one right to left). 
   

Other Possibilities:
Each day students could receive a stack of cards with different terms on them in which to write their sentences.

 

Resources
Download these resources to use in your classroom. 

Directions for printing Toolbox Cards
1.Download the toolbox card
2. Select the save button in the right hand corner
3. Open the saved document
4. Select File>Print
5. Change Page Scaling setting to Booklet Printing
6. Change Booklet Subset to Both sides
7. Press OK

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