MARIZANO - Entry

Although I have read this book in the past , I have decided that I really should read this book each summer prior to the new year! It is of the best and has great examples too. After review ing the section on the "Research and Theory on Vocabulary" I understood how I have needed to underscore vocabulary development. I simply Incorporated a small change that has worked well. We often have the students complete journal entries that would place them within the historical setting of our study, but now I have begun to list 5-10 vocabulary words on the board for the students to add to the journal. This has been a great way to increase their use and within context as well. The students have been having fun with this challenge. We are now doing better at encountering words in context more than once! I should have been doing this years ago.