I recently posted about this on Twitter, but thought it might be useful to share it here on my blog too.
This is something we have started doing this year to develop our students’ knowledge of vocabulary. I'm aware it's not perfect and there may be issues with it, but this has been our first year trialling this. As I’m sure you can imagine it took a very long time to make all of this, so please be kind / constructive in your feedback. All vocabulary test booklets are free to download at the bottom of this post. HOW WE TEST VOCABULARY All Year 7 and Year 8 MFL students were given an A5 booklet at the start of the school year. This contains the vocabulary they’ll be tested on throughout the year, matching up with the order of our department’s scheme of work. Phrases are written in the target language in the first column, with the English translation in the second. The final column was originally left blank to allow students to do Look, Cover, Say, Write, Check (students were encouraged to copy it out elsewhere as well if they needed to). All phrases were added to our departmental Memrise account and groups set up at the start of the year, so that colleagues just needed to share the appropriate links with their students to invite them to join the groups. Vocabulary tests are fortnightly - the same time each fortnight as decided by the individual class teacher. Upper sets are asked to learn the full phrase, whereas lower sets are only tested on the parts in bold. Marks are out of /20 (2 marks per question. 1 mark if they’ve had a really good go at it, 2 marks if it’s perfect. Students are told to bring these booklets in every lesson and can also use them to help with classwork in some cases (including conversations - I have tried to include a question for each of the tests). All vocabulary tests (and answers) were on a PowerPoint ready at start of year, which has decreased our workload throughout year as we have not needed to think about which vocabulary to test students on - it was all ready for us. Students peer marked in class and kept a log of their scores on the tracking sheet in their books. REWARDS I created a OneDrive spreadsheet where MFL colleagues were able to add names of students who were working really hard / performing well in VTs once a half term. These students received house points and a positive postcard home. Students also regularly receive MFL points / House Points for high vocabulary test scores. FEEDBACK... Feedback from colleagues was that students have started to use complex phrases in assessments, despite not always being explicitly taught the phrases in lessons - they had learnt them at home for the vocabulary tests. My Head of Department also carried out a survey with his classes and the majority of students said it helped them with assessments. Feedback from the survey was very positive. Some feedback from students was that the space to practise writing out the phrases was too small. ...AND HOW WE'VE ADAPTED IT FOR NEXT YEAR Due to budget constraints and students potentially losing the booklets if they’re not glued into their grammar and vocabulary exercise books, we didn’t want to print in A4. For next year I have adapted the booklets to include a ‘RAG rating’ of how well they know the phrase. Students will use the back of their exercise books to practise writing out the phrases. My Head of Department has also asked me to adapt these booklets, replacing one vocabulary test per half term with a grammar test, so I'm working on this currently for next year and will share once it's all done. As it's not just vocabulary anymore I've changed the booklet covers from 'Vocabulary Tests' to 'Need-to-knows' (I magpie'd this name from Twitter - thanks to whoever it was who shared this. Apologies, but I can't remember who it was). Please let me know if you end up using my resources. I'd love to hear from you! Dannielle x
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Aurelie
31/5/2020 15:25:10
hi Danielle!
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3/6/2020 20:09:23
Hi Aurelie. Thanks so much for this message. When I get chance I'll correct the resources and re-upload them, but really appreciate you taking the time to comment :).
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Betty
4/6/2020 14:47:16
Great work, I do something similar, call mine "must know" - ie must know connectives, opinions .... one for KS3 tailored top and lower band and a different one for KS4. I put the key word, an example in a sentence and meaning, use them for learning homework ... It enables recycling at different levels and works a treat. Really like your RAG as well.
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8/6/2020 20:04:34
I think I nicked the 'Need to know' thing off twitter - are you on there? I'm wondering if it was you who tweeted about it a few weeks ago and I just adapted yours cos I liked the name? Yours sounds really good!!! Thanks for commenting :)
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Betty
18/6/2020 23:38:38
Might be. Do follow you on twitter and remember commenting on your post. Been using booklets for 20 years now, just updated the KS3 ones ready for September - have stopped counting the updates now!
Betty
22/8/2020 17:35:40
All my "Must Knows" for KS3 and 4 are on my Quizlet account if of any use to you - in folders for easy ref.
Sarah Creighton
8/6/2020 20:59:17
Thank you so much for sharing.
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Isabelle
11/6/2020 09:29:41
Thank you for sharing - you're amazing, as always!
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Francois
11/6/2020 13:40:46
Many thanks for sharing your vocab sheets/tests; the idea is a very good one and I can see myself adapting it to my requirements this Summer.
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Latifa Aitelhawa
24/6/2020 20:12:06
Hi Danielle,
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8/7/2020 10:32:36
Hi Dannielle,
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Laurence Creteau
3/11/2020 21:52:03
These are great ideas, thank you so much for sharing! I love the tips pages too, really clear and helpful.
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Marissa
7/7/2021 07:24:57
Thank you so much. This is amazing. I'm going to magpie this and adapt for my department. It's given me huge food for though. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!
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