Reed Students Share Revision Games

To Help Fellow Students

By Eliza Hallabeck

Reed Intermediate School sixth grade students were huddled over handmade game boards on Monday, May 14, in the school’s Library/Media Center.

Each group of students had a different game. Students in Michelle Vaccaro’s class created the games after studying revisions for their writing. On Monday, Mrs Vaccaro’s students combined with Todd Stentiford’s sixth grade students, who are about to study the same subject.

All of the students also came to the morning’s exercise with writing notebooks, currently filled with the students’ most recent writing efforts, mysteries.

“We are here today for our first ever Students Teach Students,” said Mrs Vaccaro before the gathered two classes. She explained the games were created to help the students through their revision process. Students also created revision menus, in the form of restaurant menus.

Mrs Vaccaro said the students would use the games first before the menus, and broke the students up into groups.

The games had names like Revision Race, Revision-Land, Rollin’ Revisions, and Talk to Techniques.

Red pencils were handed out at the start of the event to also help students mark revisions in their writing notebooks.

Sixth grader Isabelle Row said her favorite square in the Revision-Land game, created by her team, asked players to “paint a picture in the reader’s mind.”

Across the room, Adam Farley explained the students playing his team’s game had to revise their writing according to what the square they landed on in the game said to do.

Part of the plan for the Monday event included having the students join together at the end of the period to discuss what they had learned and share different revisions they made to their writing while playing through the student created games. A second day was planned for Thursday, May 17, for Mrs Vaccaro’s students to share the games and menus with more sixth grade students.