Simple Yet Powerful Formative Assessment of IR with Sarah Rust

Every Wednesday is Independent Reading (IR) day here in our Language Arts classes here at NHS. Today, Language Arts teacher Sarah Rust, one of our awesome collaborative partners, did this very simple yet interesting formative assessment with her students. The instructions:

Students selected a sticky note of a color of their choosing and then composed their responses. As an extra touch to celebrate the concept of IR, Ms. Rust then took their responses and fashioned them into the letters “IR.”...