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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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» Literacy (5)
Activities for Y5/6 pupils and above
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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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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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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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"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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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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Grammar and punctuation quiz
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Practice drill for correct use of apostrophes.
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"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt".
Go on, give it a go! Formative feedback lets your students see where they have misunderstood a concept and points them in the right direction (never merely giving the correct answer). Bags of system support for you, the teacher, as and when you need it. What is there to fear?
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Tests your knowledge of clause elements |
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Snatch your students "out of the jaws of death"-by-Shakespeare using these fun and formative assessments which bring the story behind the words to life whilst cleverly reporting your students' levels of knowledge and understanding (individually and as a group). Their evaluative skills should improve too and the sun will definitely shineth every day!
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» Poetry KS3 (1)
Resoures for Key Stage 3 poetry
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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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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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"...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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Playing around with various forms of English-based homework.
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This is the second enrichment activity about dangling and misplaced modifiers.
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