Marzano and vocabulary

Every year I make a goal to be better at teaching vocabulary, and since it is a goal every year, obviously I haven't accomplished it yet! Reading about how to teach vocabulary I got excited about how to teach it-especially incorporating content words in science and social studies. Pages 128-129 give explicit steps in teaching vocabulary that seem reasonable and would help students learn the words and their meanings. I have started thinking and writing down ideas for the words my students need to learn. Here's to this being the year that my goal is accomplished!