Mary moore's Blog – April 2014 Archive (1)

Piloting a vocabulary website for the district.  It is called Membean.com.  The creators of the site have used research-based strategies to  help students learn words.  When a student is given a new word, the word is given in context - before the definition.  The context clues that are given make it very easy to understand the meaning of the word.  The next section is a memory hook..corny ways to remember the…