Over the past several weeks several teachers and I poured over the Global Studies Regents Examinations that were given in the last 5 years. Several vocabulary words that were not always specific to just social studies began to reappear as a pattern on these exams. These “Tier II” vocabulary words were put into a program called Quizlet by Teresa Inclema-Currie (Thank Teresa!) This program will allow students to learn these words through online virtual flash cards or through other activities on the Quizlet website. Click here:http://quizlet.com/subject/helpful-words-for-the-global-studies-regents/
Quizlet also offers an App for Iphone and Ipad for practiving these on the go!
Also thank you to Diane Boni for suggesting the following steps by Marzano for:
Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement
The six steps to effective vocabulary instruction outlined in Marzano’s Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement(2004)
- Step 1: the teacher provides a description, explanation, or example of the new term
Step 2: students restate the explanation of the new term in their own words
Step 3: students create a nonlinguistic representation of the term
Step 4: students periodically do activities that help them add to their knowledge of vocabulary terms
Step 5: periodically students are asked to discuss the terms with one another
- Step 6: periodically students are involved in games that allow them to play with the terms
