Saturday, May 8, 2010
MARZANO -Entry
Although I have read this book in the past , I have decided that I really should read this book each summer prior to the new year! It is of the best and has great examples too. After review ing the section on the "Research and Theory on Vocabulary" I understood how I have needed to underscore vocabulary development. I simply Incorporated a small change that has worked well. We often have the students complete journal entries that would place them within the historical setting of our study, but now I have begun to list 5-10 vocabulary words on the board for the students to add to the journal. This has been a great way to increase their use and within context as well. The students have been having fun with this challenge. We are now doing better at encountering words in context more than once! I should have been doing this years ago.
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Great ideas. I agree with you that it is always good to brush up on "best practice" many of these strategies we have learned at some point but we get in a rut so to speak and sometimes we just need to be reminded of some of these great strategies. I love the idea of having students incorporate vocabulary words in the journal because it is so much more powerful to be able to use the words in context, afterall that is the purpose.
ReplyDeleteI really liked the suggestion of incorporating an image with the vocabulary word. I find that students are so visual and especially High School students, they love to doodle. If they can come up with a representative image to associate the word I think it will always stick with them and will have a greater probablity that it will be used in a conversation or discussion used in context.