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1. Making word maps
2. Making word charts
3. Using symbols
4. Making rhymes
5. Making associations
6. Drawing or visualizing
7. Using the words in stories
8. Labeling
9. Writing phrases
10. Making repetition interesting
Read the following ways to organize vocabulary learning.
Check ✅ the one(s) that you think would be useful to you.⬜ 1. Making mind maps
⬜ 1. Making mind maps
Here is a word map for adjectives that mean the same as strange.
⬜2. Making word charts | Headings
⬜2. Making word charts | Headings
⬜ 3. Using symbols
⬜ 3. Using symbols
Write words and their opposites like this:
poor ≠ rich
destitute ≠ affluent
indigent ≠ wealthy
⬜ 4. Making rhymes
⬜ 4. Making rhymes
To reiterate
one must restate
again and again
and again
⬜ 5. Making associations
⬜ 5. Making associations
A parrot repeats phrases it has learned. We could call this bird "a reiterating parrot."
⬜6. Drawing or visualizing
⬜6. Drawing or visualizing
Draw a picture of one of the various meanings of a cell. If you can't draw or don't feel like drawing, picture in your mind a cell as you repeat the word.
cell
⬜ 7. Using the words in stories
⬜ 7. Using the words in stories
Once there was a cell that was bored. It stated its boredom so often that the other cells decided to do something to stop the cell's constant reiteration ...
⬜ 8. Labeling
⬜ 8. Labeling
Write the word or words on a paper and attach it to a place where you will see it. Post the words My Cell on the door to your room.
Write reiterate on four pieces of paper. Tape the pieces of paper above your desk.
⬜ 9. Writing phrases
⬜ 9. Writing phrases
Make up a phrase that helps you remember the meaning of a word, using the letters of the word.
cell: The criminal escaped, laughing loudly
⬜ 10. Making repetition interesting
⬜ 10. Making repetition interesting
Say the word and its meaning aloud in many different ways. For example, say it as if you don't want anyone to hear you tell this secret to someone else; as if you want everyone to hear the great news; as if you are an old person with a creaky voice; as if you are a scary ghost with a haunting voice; as if you are a child; as if you are a foreigner with a different accent; or as if you are excited or depressed, etc.
STRATEGIES to use for building vocabulary
STRATEGIES to use for building vocabulary
VOCABULARY Finding unrelated words (Part 1)
VOCABULARY Finding unrelated words (Part 1)
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