HIA+Vocabulary

HIA Walkthrough Wonderings related to Vocabulary:
 * 1) How to shift vocabulary development from correct, to useful to applicable ?
 * 2) How can the use of technology be expanded for more student engagement?
 * 3) How do students organize their thinking?
 * 4) How do we shift the roles of the teachers and the students?

Robert Marzano has compiled 6 Steps of Efffective Vocab Instruction... not a list of individual strategies- but a combinationof approaches which must be emplyed to ensure lasting vocab learnig and application.

In our classrooms, which of the steps are your (or HIA's) strengths? Which areas need to be more visible and practiced?

**[|__Step 1:__]** [| __The teacher will give a description, explanation, or example of the new term__][|.] **[|__Step 2:__]** [| __The teacher will ask the learner to give a description, explanation, or example of the new term in his/her own words.__] **[|__Step 3:__]** [| __The teacher will ask the learner to draw a picture, symbol, or locate a graphic to represent the new term.__] **[|__Step 4:__]** [| __The learner will participate in activities that provide more knowledge of the words in their vocabulary notebooks__]. **[|__Step 5:__]** [| __The learner will discuss the term with other learners.__] **[|__Step 6:__]** [| __The learner will participate in games that provide more reinforcement of the new term.__]

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