Question About Star of the Day/Week

3 thoughts on “Question About Star of the Day/Week”

1. Laura

   September 9, 2015 at 10:19 am

   I make it into a guessing game. How well do you know X? So for each question they have to guess asking the star using 2nd singular. While the star answers in 1st singular. If I see their friend/s will get all the answers I either have the star change the answer or don’t let the friend/s guess.
   The class gets X# of guessing chances (changes according to the question)for a point towards 15min at the end of week for PAT. I make getting these 15min. very difficult so there are weeks they don’t get them bc I don’t do star everyday. But since they have to guess for a point most are very engaged. I don’t let someone guess twice before everyone has guessed on something once. I work too hard to have sleepers or floor/window watchers.

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   1. Eric Herman

      September 9, 2015 at 11:06 am

      Many teachers agreed (in the thread where this question comes from) that one good strategy is to let the class get in on the interview by storyasking and to mix the real (personalized) and fictional (customized).
      Also, shorter interviews (1-3 main questions) allows you to interview more kids the same day, which also then gives you lots of compare and contrast.
      And then you could add a quiz of some kind at the end – but to me, if you include “accountability” thinking it will get the kids to engage, then there’s something that needs to be adjusted during the activity.

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   2. Ben Slavic

      September 9, 2015 at 12:06 pm

      …I work too hard to have sleepers or floor/window watchers….
      This is such a true statement.

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