Writing thirty fair, specific and kind report card comments takes whole evenings. The hard part is not the first sentence. It is the fifteenth, when you are still looking for another way to say a student reads independently. It is also the second report card, when you do not want families to reread November’s comment word for word.

This generator solves both problems. In Excel or Google Sheets, you choose the student, the subject and the level, and a complete comment writes itself with the student’s name and pronouns. Each comment gives one strength, then one concrete next step, exactly what the Strengths/Next Steps for Improvement box asks for. Each strand has 5 strengths and 5 next steps per level, which makes 25 combinations. The file spreads them across your students and changes sentences from one report to the next: Progress Report, Report Card 1 and Report Card 2 in elementary, and every report in secondary.

A Sentence Picker tab shows every sentence of a strand with the name filled in, so you can choose a number knowingly. Learning Skills use E, G, S and N ratings. Every sentence is complete and Canadian-spelled. The printable PDF bank holds every sentence, with step-by-step instructions for Excel and Google Sheets. This edition (Grades 11 and 12) holds 10,182 sentences for English, French as a Second Language, Mathematics, Science, History, Geography, Politics, Law, Economics, Philosophy, Social Sciences and Humanities, Business Studies, Computer Science, Technological Education, Health and Physical Education, The Arts and Cooperative Education, plus Learning Skills and special-situation sentences. Content strands are now specific to each course, with the grade and the course code, for 46 of the most widely offered Grade 11 and 12 courses (for example: Biology 11 (SBI3U) · Diversity of Living Things).

Use it to:

• write a whole class’s report card comments in one evening;
• keep comments varied within one class without effort;
• reuse the file on the next report card by changing a single setting;
• browse ideas on paper with the printed bank;
• stay under your board’s character limit with the built-in check;
• start from a solid comment and add a sentence of your own.

The instructions are clear enough that there is nothing to learn before you start.

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