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Grade 8 · English Language Arts · Unit 13 of 13

Goals & Feedback

Set goals, use feedback, track growth

What your child practises

Children practise setting specific learning goals, using feedback, tracking evidence of growth and thinking about reading fluency.

Nunavut Curriculum approved guide: NWT English Language Arts (2011), Comprehension · fluency, comparing strategies, class criteria, feedback, learning goals and tracking progress

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which is the most specific goal?

    • I will do better.
    • I will check my work for capital letters before I hand it in.
    • I will be good.
    • I will try hard.

  2. Question 2

    Which is descriptive feedback?

    • Better next time.
    • Fine.
    • Good job.
    • Your opening grabs attention. Add a detail about the setting in paragraph two.

  3. Question 3

    Which goal can you measure?

    • I will be smart.
    • I will read for 20 minutes on four days this week.
    • I will read more.
    • I will like reading.

  4. Question 4

    Tracking your growth means…

    • collecting evidence of what you have learned over time
    • hiding your marks
    • comparing yourself only to the top student
    • counting your absences

  5. Question 5

    You set a goal to use more precise verbs. Which step helps?

    • add more pictures
    • highlight vague verbs in a draft and swap them
    • write longer paragraphs
    • use a bigger font

  6. Question 6

    Reflecting on being a listener, which question is most useful?

    • Did I finish early?
    • Did I wait for the speaker to finish before I responded?
    • Was the room warm?
    • Was I first?

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