Does anyone have any tips on helping student complete fill in the word blanks without a word bank for vocabulary when used in sentence?
This student is struggling with recall without word bank, but does okay if def. is said and then has to provide vocab. word. It is when it has to be inserted in the sentence.
This format is often used in testing at our school.
Re: study skills
I wonder why no word bank would be provided. If they don’t provide a word bank, do they accept appropriate synonyms? I wouldn’t feel comfortable writing that kind of test myself, unless sentences are so specific that only one word is appropriate. So I wouldn’t be very willing to accept a mark as a true indicator of ability.
i.e. The boy [blank] happily at the puppy’s antics.
smiled, grinned, laughed, even clapped would all be appropriate here.
How these tests are built? Are they based on a specific set of words learned that week? day? year(s)?
Re: study skills
What grade is this? Are the students memorizing all the vocab words each week, then recalling them and filling in the blanks for the test? In our middle school word banks are used for the vocabulary tests.
Re: study skills
To address the question asked — interesting that the word recall is there with the association of the definition. Would a word bank necessarily help without that association?
Perhaps consciously trying to figure out teh definition of a word that would fit the situation would work — that could inspire the memory. Or, doing mnemonics (five words that start with d… 4 with “tion”…) and constructing one’s own word bank befoer starting the quiz would be another idea.
Why is your school committed to vocab tests without word banks? What’s the thinking?
Has this student been tested? If he has a retrieval problem, this method of testing is not appropriate to his learning needs.