I remember always getting annoyed that I had to put grades in the book. Can’t I just ride the CI train and enjoy ]taking in the scenery of the stories with my students? But I want to keep my job so I collect grades. This year, I have found a nice way to get two quiz grades in the book in a hurry.
Let’s say that a class just finished a story, including the reading. For the next class, the next day, I would greet them with the same story that they just read projected in front of the class and explain to them that today I want them to simply translate it, drawing a line in places where they weren’t sure of a word.
Since they just created the story and read it in class yesterday, they of course can do it nicely, and their confidence soars. Then I pair that with another quiz by asking them to flip their paper over and on the back number 1 through 10 and answer the yes/no questions given to me by the quiz writer. Again, since they just heard it and read it, they can answer the questions easily.
I do go over the questions at my desk before giving the quiz, while they are doing their translation, to clean it up and make the last two questions harder.
By combining a quick translation quiz and story quiz to start a class, I get two grades in the book which are easy to write and easy to grade and which limit the amount of time lost to new CI.
In a way, this kind of quiz is just more reps, in the form of reading and listening. Nice!