- Specific activities should be planned by the teacher to periodically review the targeted terms.
- Each time students engage in these activities, they should be provided opportunities to add to, or revise, the entry for the term in their academic notebooks. Encourage students to:
- Highlight a prefix or suffix that will help them remember the meaning of the term.
- Identify synonyms or antonyms for the term.
- Draw an additional non-linguistic representation.
- Write brief cautions or reminders of common confusions.
Suggestions for Activities:
- Free Association (Marzano & Pickering, 2005)
- Students should be placed into small groups and will be provided a target term.
- Each member of the group will take turns saying any word that comes to mind related to the target term.
- The teacher should signal the students to stop. The last person to say a word will explain how that word is related to the target term.
- Comparing Activities
- Classifying Activities
- Give students a list of terms from their notebooks and ask them to classify the terms.
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Create categories for students and ask them to find terms in their vocab notebooks that might fit into those categories.
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Ask students to review all of the terms in their vocab notebooks and challenge them to create their own categories and classify those terms.
- Analogy Activities
- Create Metaphors
- SMART Notebook Vocab Example - Synonym, Antonym, Analogy, Metaphor, Describe
Feel free to comment at the bottom of this wiki page and share other activities that would engage students to review the targeted terms.
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