Resources:
The Onion Poster- Click Here It can be printed and placed in books, or on classroom walls, or in student planners. Or everywhere!
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| Idea adapted from Fulhams Girls School |
What to do:
A way of making sure students revise their own work
and pay attention to written accuracy.
Putting more responsibility for learning and
progress upon the students: encouraging a wider sense of independent learning.
Raise student awareness of literacy and its
importance – balance things out!
A way of reducing some of the teacher’s marking
burden as work is more likely to be marked for quality of ideas and subject
understanding.
Variations:
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o As a DNA (Do Now Activity) – students given an
inaccurate subject-specific text and asked to ‘Onion’ it or to reflect on their
own work/marking from a previous lesson.
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o Self-assessment - ask students to follow all the
steps when they have completed a more extended piece of writing.
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o Students identify which step is most relevant to
them and their skills – what do they need to check?
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o As part of a homework task - especially good
for practical subjects
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o You can direct students to focus on 1 or 2 points
only according to what is relevant in your lesson. Groups could have different
focus areas – e.g. Some checking 1 and 2, others checking 3 and 4.
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o Useful as an element of peer-assessment – e.g.
Check 1/ 2/ 3/ Onion.
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o Group writing can be checked using The Onion.
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o A competitive, timed plenary activity (Onion to
music? Marvin Gaye’s The Onion Song?)
Post by the Whole School Literacy Coordinator- Louise Marsh
Labels: peer assessment
