B just gave me his weekly recitation – what concepts he studied in pre-algebra, his art project, a summary of the history he read, the story he wrote, his grammar exercises.
When we had the cards for his pocket chart, he would discarded them when he would finish the assignment. So when he had to collect his “weekly work” to show me what he’d done, neither of us remembered what that was. (He still keeps track of his daily work with the pocket chart).
A checklist tells him what to do, what he did, and what to pack for recitation. Even better, it tells me what he should have done, whether he did it, and what to ask him about.
I love it when something works, if only for a little while. Even if I was looking at the wrong month when I made the chart.