Strategies for Tier 3 Vocab Words

Step One

100

You are providing these people with initial information about a term

Who are students?

200

You provide descriptions, explanations, and examples, but NOT this.

What is a definition?

300

One effective method is to have all of the students gather together to talk about the term

What is a group discussion?

Step Two

100

Students need to do this in their own words to show what they learned in Step One.

What is restating?

200

At this point, students should only demonstrate this.

What is an initial understanding?

300

This is a good place to list new words.

What is a vocabulary notebook?

Step 3

100

You can ask a student to create a picture, symbol, or one of these for the term.

What is a graphic representation?

200

Students may have trouble coming up with a visual image for a term, so you may have to do this.

What is modeling?

300

Make sure that you remind students to NOT do this when constructing a visual for their word

What is overdrawing?