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This suite of resources is designed to test students from Year 5 through to Adult Learners on the various homonyms and near homophones which can be so confusing, and which are so often misused. Use the tests:
We recommend that you give each student the diagnostic test initially. The results of this will show you each student's strengths and weaknesses by word class (e.g. where/were/we're). Specific tests are then available so that you can target your teaching effectively. |
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A series of quizzes to test students' proficiency across a variety of literacy skills.
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These quizzes reinforce the exercises in the Chalkface Literacy Basics worksheets Pack 1 and Pack 3. There is a direct correspondence between the quizzes and the page numbers in each pack. There are 10 questions per quiz. They use a rich variety of different question types to maintain interest, and every question includes formative feedback. To get the most out of these quizzes:
The Wordles quiz covers 20 of the 32 topics and can be used for general reinforcement. It is not suitable as a general diagnostic, because its highly visual nature would skew the results. The Wordles themselves were created on wordle.net. |
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» Literacy (5)
Activities for Y5/6 pupils and above
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Is Yacapaca really "such stuff as dreams are made on"? Try these auto-marked, formative assessments on your students and see what you and they think.
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25 homework activities to go with the Chalkface pack .English KS3: Shakespeare's Times and Theatre'. These are a mix of short-txt, essay, diary, eportfolio and mini-website tasks with plenty of scope for the more able to stretch themselves.
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"What's in a name?" Finding out what Yacapaca means could prove a fun challenge for you but whether you find the exercise of benefit could be a moot point. The benefits of Yacapca assessments, however, are proven and your students will definitely get the fun challenge as well. Act by Act, character by character, theme by theme or just an overall diagnostic, these assessments come with formative feedback to really get them thinking.
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"...some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them"
Yacapaca caters for them all: challenging and searching questions for those born great, formative feedback encourages them to achieve greatness and great question-writing thrusts greatness upon them when they surpass expectation. Teachers think it's great too: "the students loved it and the assessment data is really useful".
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Grammar and punctuation quiz
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There'll be no daggers in your smiles, your students will love these assessments. Fun and formative they will consolidate knowledge, reinforce understanding and encourage evaluative skills.
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Practice drill for correct use of apostrophes.
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Tests your knowledge of clause elements |
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Five homeworks (three short-text assessments and two essays) linked to specific lessons from the Chalkface pack 'Applying ICT to English'.
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» Poetry KS3 (1)
Resoures for Key Stage 3 poetry
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These are coursework essays for AQA English language and literature (we use Shakespeare as a cross-over piece) The reason I did it like this was so I could comment on their work while it was still in progress rather than paper form - you do have to 'lock' the essays from your teacher 'tasks' page, to prevent coursework being done outside of school. I'll definitely keep doing this for essays for all classes - I might even set KS3 some homework through this: It took me hardly anytime to write comments for each of the year 10's essays - more time for planning the next one! I'm a yacapaca convert! |
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Of Mice and Men for GCSE English
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» Web Quests (2)
Open-ended research tasks
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Playing around with various forms of English-based homework.
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Yacapaca is the difference between enthused students raring to 'go Shakespeare' and the "‘T’is neither here nor there" brigade. From small chunk theme-by-theme to diagnostic whole-of-play, all assessments suit a wide range of uses and all offer formative feedback to stretch the brightest students and support the weaker ones.
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"Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May" and, before you know it, it's exam time. Do your students know their play or do they, like me :-), invariably muddle their quotes. Yacapaca questions reinforce knowledge, promote understanding and encourage evaluative skills. Auto-marked assessments report instantaneously where your students (individually or as a group) are weak so you can focus your teaching in those areas.
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