Patti- I love your method. Michele and I have also been discussing the method of assessment used to test those small number of words. The assessment must be generative rather than multiple choice if students are to actually acquire the words. Michelle Andersen Francis Academic Skills Center Coordinator Western Nevada Community College Carson City, NV ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patricia R Eney" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 12:30 PM Subject: Re: vocabulary development > I have felt the same way for a long time, so I now give only ten words > at a time, I get the words from their reading selections, and we use > Michelle Simpson's ideas for making up exercises that test their > comprehension of the word to act as a review. Then, on each vocabulary > quiz, they are tested on the words of the week and are given several > review words from previous lessons as well. This helps them get the words > in long term memory. > > This method seems to work well. > > Patti > > Patricia R. Eney > Learning Assistance Lecturer > University of Wisconsin-Parkside > 900 Wood Road > Kenosha, WI 53141-2000 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > To access the LRNASST-L archives or User Guide, or to change your > subscription options (including subscribe/unsubscribe), point your web > browser to > http://www.lists.ufl.edu/archives/lrnasst-l.html > > To contact the LRNASST-L owner, email [log in to unmask] > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To access the LRNASST-L archives or User Guide, or to change your subscription options (including subscribe/unsubscribe), point your web browser to http://www.lists.ufl.edu/archives/lrnasst-l.html To contact the LRNASST-L owner, email [log in to unmask]