Vocabulary Strategies
This strategy uses a diagram to connect related words and ideas visually.
What is Semantic Mapping?
A note format with a narrow column for cues/questions and a wide column for notes.
What are Two-Column Notes?
A step-by-step approach to reading words with more than one syllable.
What is the Decoding Multisyllable Words Routine?
A pre-reading strategy where students agree/disagree with statements before reading.
What is an Anticipation Guide?
A quick end-of-class check where students write down what they learned.
What is an Exit Slip?
A grid used to compare concepts using specific features.
What is Semantic Feature Analysis?
True or False: Cornell Notes are only for science classes.
What is False?
When using the multisyllable routine, you start by doing this first.
What is finding the vowels?
When a teacher reads a text aloud to model fluency.
What is a Read Aloud?
A strategy involving predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing in small groups.
What is Reciprocal Teaching?
A four-square graphic organizer that defines a word, gives characteristics, examples, and non-examples.
What is the Frayer Method?
When reviewing notes, you should write this at the bottom to summarize.
What is the summary?
This skill helps you figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words by breaking them apart.
What is morphological analysis?
A cooperative learning method where each student becomes an “expert” on one part of the reading.
What is a Jigsaw?
Expanding a basic sentence by adding details like who, what, when, where, why.
What is Sentence Expansion?
Placing words into groups based on shared characteristics.
What is Categorizing?
A note-taking format with a cue column, note-taking area, and summary section.
What are Cornell Notes?
A chart that breaks words into prefixes, roots, and suffixes to form new words
What is a Word Matrix?
This chart tracks what you Know, Want to know, and Learned.
What is a KWL chart?
A strategy where you retell the main ideas in your own words.
What is Summarizing?
A technique where you rate words or ideas on a scale to show relationships.
What is Scaling?
In Cornell Notes, this section is where you write the main ideas and cues.
What is the left column?
In a Word Matrix, “pre-” is an example of this.
What is a prefix?
The practice of marking up a text with notes, highlights, and questions.
What is Annotation?
A sentence frame where you explain a statement in three different ways.
What is Because, But, So?