Here is a great idea for vocabulary words. Make flash cards of the vocabulary words. When you are done, sort the words into three piles. The first pile should be the words you know. The second pile should contain the ones you don’t know at all. The third pile should be the ones you kind of know, but need to work on a little more. Once you have separated the words, color code the cards with a marker in three different colors. I like to use red for the ones I don’t know at all, yellow for those that need some more work, and green for the ones I definitely know.
The acts of making the flashcards, sorting them into three piles, and color-coding them provide three different opportunities to engage with the words. It also helps focus efforts on the words that really need work. Try it and see how you do.
Jill Hartmann, M.Ed.,S.A.I.F.
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