Thursday, March 11, 2010
Triple Entry Vocab
I used triple entry vocab with my kids for our most recent unit. We're working on Europe during the middle ages, and there are a LOT of terms for this unit that the kids will need to be familiar with throughout our upcoming material. After narrowing down the terms that were especially important and discussing them in our material, I had the kids create definitions of the terms in their own words and then create either a visual or phrase to help them remember the meanings of the words. The kids whined about doing something new and unfamiliar ("why can't we just define them from the glossary?!?!"), but based on vocab quiz scores, the kids had (on average) better retention of the meanings. WOOHOO!
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I really like the use of triple entry. Many people are better visual learners and thus relate to pictures more than words only. The requirement that the words be written, then defined, increases the likelihood that the information will be retained. Creativity is required to come up with a picture and so the student is deeply engaged. They may have whined at the beginning, but I doubt that anyone whined at the reuslting improved grade.
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