Vocabulary of Testing

Here's an idea from a colleague...

We do tests (not the official ones) to find out what children do/don't know, to give them practice of what a test is like and to teach test technique.

Good practice is to review the test with the pupils. What did they get right? What did they get wrong? Why?

Something we've recently learned is to ask the children for 'the words they did not understand'. Then, spend some time defining these words and then display them for all to see. Can't do the test if you don't understand the vocabulary...

Word Class (Parts of Speach) & Colours

As written about previously, we noticed some children really struggling to remember word classes and therefore not form sentences correctly or know how to improve and develop their sentence structures.

We wrote a sentence, in black text and uploaded it to Google Drive. The children then accessed that Google Doc and changed the colours of each word to show what they thought the word class was. Each child had their own copy of the sentence to work on. After the children had answered, the Doc was locked and the answers discussed.