Easy to Grade Spanish Comprehension Quiz Ideas

 Need some inspiration for your Spanish comprehension quizzes? Today I want to share my two favorite Spanish comprehension quiz options to use with middle school and high school students!

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Grade Requirements

One day when I got an email from admin that just said, “Hey, you’re all expected to put in two grades per student per week!” I immediately started thinking, “I have 127 students. That’s almost 300 grades a week. Minimum. Awesome.” Have you ever been in that situation?

So these are my two favorite ways to satisfy that requirement, get some grades in, give students feedback in a way that is easy to monitor and not cause a lot of stress!

Spanish Comprehension Quiz Idea #1

If you’ve seen my exit ticket blog post, you know I carry it around a stack of these little slips of paper for exit tickets. It’s just five true or false questions, a space for their first name, last name, date, and class.

How to Use this Spanish Comprehension Quiz Overview

Here’s how I might use this in class if we’ve done a storytelling day, a story asking day, or we’ve been doing lots of input kind of activities:

• At the last 5-8 minutes of class, students clear desks
• 1 group member picks up slips for their group
• I call off the questions, making sure to write down the answers (I will type the questions on a slide if need be for an IEP)
• When we’ve finished, 1 group member collects the Spanish comprehension quiz and rights them so they’re all facing the same way
• I collect them on the way out of the door
• Sort into piles and grade before the next class

How to Use this Spanish Comprehension Quiz in Detail

When we get to the last five to eight minutes of class, or so and I just have somebody come pick up little slips of paper for their group.

The next thing I do is I say the questions out loud. There are no questions on the slip, it’s just the answers. So I might say something like, “Número uno, Hay un chico.” And then you wait, repeat it, and wait. You don’t have to wait very long between questions, but give them time to think and process.

We just spent 45 minutes circling and telling this story. They know. But I make sure to go slowly, I give them plenty of time to I make sure to go slowly, and I give them plenty of time to process. This is not meant to be stressful. It’s not meant to feel like, “Surprise! Pop quiz!”

For the majority of students, the feeling in the room while we’re doing this is calm and they understand that it’s easy points to get. It does help me catch if there are any like sticky points in the story, that we were working with. It’s a Spanish comprehension quiz!

Then we move on to “Número dos, El gato se llama Whiskers.” Again, wait a little bit and then repeat the question. I am circling around the room, I am looking at students, I’m checking for them. They know after they’ve understood, processed, and responded to the question, their eyes look up at me and they’re showing me that they’re ready for the next question on the Spanish comprehension quiz.

So then when I see that, I move on, not taking forever. The bell’s gonna ring, after all! Once we get through all five questions, one student in the group collects all the slips. I always ask that student to face all the slips the same way so it’s faster for me.

On their way out the door, I collect the little slips, and then grade them. Right then and there, during passing time, 3 minutes, 4 minutes, 5 minutes, whatever you have, you’re gonna grade this in that time, and it really doesn’t take you that long!

How to Grade this Spanish Comprehension Quiz

Here’s how I like to grade them quickly:

• Sort the papers into piles
• Open the grading system and apply 5/5 to all
• Check the 4 pile and change those grades
• Check the other piles and tweak those
• Excuse absent students from the grade

First, you’re gonna take all of those papers, and you’re gonna sort out 5, 4, 3, and anybody who got less than that. I very rarely have anybody get less than a 3. Even then, if it’s a 3, you know they were really messing around and not participating in the story. In the school grading system that we had, we could hit this button that said apply grade to all.

So I would recommend to do five apply to all. And then I’d go to the four pile and I’d look at the twoor three kids who got a four and I just quick change those to a four. Then, if there was anybody who had less than a four, I would go change those. If there was anybody who was absent, I just would excuse them from the grade.

By the time I’m done grading, the other students were coming in for the next class. I have even done this when traveling. I’ve had enough time to get to the other class, sit down, sort out my piles, enter in the grades, boom, done. It is FAST!

If you’re feeling like you need more variety, make sure you check out my post here on entrance & exit tickets for 11 more quick Spanish comprehension quiz ideas you can use!

Spanish Comprehension Quiz Idea #2

This is my other favorite Spanish comprehension quiz and it’s from Señora Chase. You know her, you’ll love her, she’s got great stuff, and if you don’t know her and love her already, please allow me to introduce you!

This one is quite possibly one of my all time favorites from her! It is an interpretive quick quiz and what that means is you can use it with any sort of interpretive material at all. This is my go to when my brain just like, cannot with the planning any more. We all have those moments, am I right?

Sometimes I have some sort of listening for my students and I don’t even know what to ask them. Or maybe we’ve been working with a reading and I’m feeling as though we’ve done every one of our reading activities, so I pull out these! They are again, very easy to grade.

They’re very simple. They’re very short. She has them as free downloads on her website. Again, if you don’t know her, you’re gonna love her.

You can go grab a Google Form version and a Google Doc version for free on her site. They’re super easy to use and they’re very straightforward for your students, and it allows them to kind of show off what they know rather than being limited to certain questions.

Spanish Comprehension Quiz Ideas

There you have it, my two favorite Spanish comprehension quizzes! I hope that if you recently got an email reminding you that you need X number of grades every single week, that this is going to be a helpful solution for you to not feel so overwhelmed, to not feel stressed out.

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