Letter Quiz
March 26th, 2008 · 11 Comments
A familiar style of quiz for use on the interactive whiteboard. Click a letter to choose it. Ask the question along the lines of “Which T is a…” Select which team got it right, choose a new letter.
A new set of letters is generated every game but it never includes the letters X and Z.
UPDATE: You can now select upper or lower case letters as requested by a user. Choose the case then click reset.
A bank of questions for Maths is also included. As it is a themed bank some letters are problematic. If anyone can think of better ones for J please comment below.
Go to learning resource.
Get maths question bank.
A user has kindly submitted a greatly expanded set of maths questions for this resource. The variety in this set should allow for much better differentiation as you can pick a question appropriate to the student.
Please contribute any other themed questions you have for this quiz for others to use. to this address:
Another starter/plenary quiz on this site is Bingo.
Tags: General Maths · Starter/Plenary
11 responses so far ↓
1 Merran // Apr 25, 2008 at 5:31 am
So do I come up with a word from the letters generated and then go from there?
2 admin // Apr 25, 2008 at 9:07 am
For general knowledge quizzes I use a dictionary. If the student picks letter T, for example, I flick to the T section of the dictionary and find an appropriate word. Then I ask “What T is a…” and read out the definition.
For more subject specific quizzes you’d need to make a question bank like the Maths one. I will try and come up with some question banks for different subjects but it takes time to come up with three questions for every letter. If anyone does create a question bank and would like to contribute it, it would be very welcome.
3 NancyH // Feb 2, 2009 at 6:27 pm
What J is used as an exaggeration for a whole bunch of something? (Jillion)
4 hasina // Apr 3, 2009 at 8:51 am
What a fantastic resource. The learners enjoyed the game and the lesson was thoroughly enjoyed. The question bank is a very good idea and had a lot of useful relevant questions.
5 Margaret // Apr 17, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Great ! Thank you.
Alternative source of questions:Have individual students suggest questions with answers that begin with as many letters of the alphabet as they can for a teacher’s question like this – “What should we know about _____” ex. What should we know about mammals? solar system? weather? simple machines? global warming? It becomes a student’s thinking challenge to construct the questions & provide answers which are then compiled to make the quiz set of questions. (If his own good questions arise in the Quiz, the student could be identified but can’t give the answer.)
6 admin // Apr 17, 2009 at 2:08 pm
An excellent suggestion. Thank you for sharing.
Spencer
7 Anne // Apr 24, 2009 at 9:18 pm
This is such a brilliant resource.
I’m using this on my level 3 creative and media on observation day!
Thank you so much for sharing.
8 admin // Apr 25, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Thank you for the compliment. If you have a good question list for your subject perhaps you might contribute it for others to use?
Spencer
9 sarah dixon // Apr 27, 2009 at 8:43 pm
I intend to use this resource for a reward lesson with my special needs students tomorrow. I am going to use the question cards I have from a Junior Blockbusters game .
10 Roger // Dec 3, 2009 at 7:36 pm
Hi, I have been using the letter quiz and the kids really enjoy it. I teach ICT and have developed a couple of word banks, one based on sound and the other on Database, and mail merge.
I am more than happy to share these but not sure how to do this?
Thanks for a great resource
Roger C
11 Spencer // Dec 3, 2009 at 11:02 pm
If you’d like to contribute your question list for others to use please forward them as an attachment in any popular format to the email address on the about page and I’ll format them and make them available to others. Let me know how you’d like to be credited on them.
Thanks for your generosity.
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