Viva -Spanish Knowledge Checks (Can be used for homework, pre/post testing or revision)

A series of knowledge check questions that go through every topic of Viva 1. Each table has between 6 and 24 questions which test the student on their understanding of the topic. They could be used for homework by providing the student with a blank sheet to fill in once the lesson content has been taught or, as a pre-test before the lesson content is taught, revisiting the knowledge check once all lesson content has been delivered.

How I have been using them is…
Step 1: Provide the student with the knowledge check table after teaching the content in order to ascertain what they know. They write their answers in the grid in black/blue ink.
Step 2: Ask students to choose three colour highlighters. They MUST NOT add any answers and at this point I make sure that they are only holding highlighters and not normal pens. Teacher displays the answers (all answer grids provided in this resource pack) and students just highlight in the following way: green for secure answer, yellow for partially there, red for not understood/attempted. (Of course, they can use different colours but ask them to make a key!)
STEP 3: students see from the blank answers/highlighted answers, where they need to revise. They update their score on the progress tracker for that particular topic and then identify the questions which need most revision.
STEP 4: I provided my students with photocopies of the answer sheet or uploaded it onto our school homework system. Alternatively, if lesson time permits, we spend some time making personalised revision cards/mind-maps. Homework is then set to revise the vocab needed, learning any answers that were red from 1st attempt.
STEP 5: The SAME knowledge check is done the following week but this time students use a different colour pen to add answers to their previously unknown/incorrect as well as improve their partially correct if they can. Once again, answers are gone through.
STEP 6: Students record their second attempt mark on the progress tracker. I have issued consequences for lack of progress and written letters home to indicate that intervention is needed after school and have used the knowledge checks as evidence.

Of course, they do not have to be used as above and could be given pre topic teaching and then again post topic or just as vocab learning homeworks.

Hope they’re useful! The idea is obviously to help students secure knowledge but also to engage them in their learning/revision. I put two songs on whilst they complete the grid and find that making it a timed exercise promotes a bit of competition!

NOTE: the vocab/structures were all taken from the Viva 1 textbook. Some key words are repeated across topics to really embed the spelling/understanding!