For a student with an IEP that requires written rather than oral instructions, IвЂ™ll handwrite the three words on an index card before class and quietly slide the card to the kid when the quiz begins. Instead, students use a half-sheet of binder or scrap paper to record their answers. I mean, each quiz is only three questions long, so IвЂ™m almost always able to score and enter them in the grade book before students are done with their SSR session.

This three-question method is no prep and pretty much impossible to cheat on because I choose different words for each of my classes on the spot as IвЂ™m giving the quiz.

HereвЂ™s the latest one with me talking about this same idea: You may have noticed that this year IвЂ™m trying to make more videos to share my ideas on YouTube. The definition, synonym, and antonym donвЂ™t have to be precisely the same words that we used in class to discuss our Words on Wednesday bell-ringer slides. I say a third word and students write an accurate antonym. I give a different word and students write an accurate synonym.ДЈ. word and have students write the wordвЂ™s definition.Дў. The next year, I tossed the above quiz format altogether and came up with an easy to prep, easy to grade, cheat-proof vocabulary quiz, one IвЂ™ve used now for about a decade. I had better things to do with my Sunday afternoons. Nearly a third of my 5th period used some combination of 2nd periodвЂ™s answers, forcing me to realize IвЂ™d been terribly naive.ДЇor awhile, I tried to stay ahead of the cheaters by writing separate quizzes for each of my five classes, but I quickly grew weary. The kicker, though, is that Danny wasnвЂ™t the only one. Sure enough, Danny wrote the morning classвЂ™ answers in the exact order on his paper, earning a zero and my disdain. quiz, I wrote two different versions with the same word bank. He (вЂњDannyвЂќ seems right) always bested SandyвЂ™s score. quizzes but often missed one or two questions. She, letвЂ™s call her Sandy, did well on my vocab. She was in my 2nd period he was in 5th, right after lunch.ДЄ few months into the year, I noticed something peculiar. Together, they were the golden couple of the freshman class. He was handsome and charming but not so smart.

Vocab quiz