Ekeko - Day 16

Today was assessment day. I wanted to assess the students' reading skills without testing their plot detail memory too much, so I gave them the text of Chapter 9 (which they had never read) printed along with 10 questions in English. They were a mixture of comprehension questions and SBAC style questions asking for inferences, context clues and text evidence. If you would like to use them, they can be found here: Chapter 9 SBAC questions.

The test only took the students about 20 minutes (some finished in like 8), so afterward we played a fun review game. I wrote many vocabulary words from the text on the board in different colors. I divided the students into two groups and gave each one a flyswatter. Then, to give just a bit more input, I described the vocabulary terms in Spanish and/or gave clues from the text. Students had to race to think of the correct term and hit it with the flyswatter.

For example:
Piensa - formar ideas en tu cabeza
Pelota - es una cosa que necesitas para jugar los deportes
Mochila - es una cosa que usas para llevar los libros a la escuela
Nuevo - no es viejo
Alasitas - el festival de cosas miniaturas en Bolivia