Strategy: Capsule Vocabulary



|Strategy: Capsule Vocabulary |

|Appropriate Grade Level: 1st-4th grade |

|Procedures/Steps: |

|Capsule Vocabulary is a word connecting activity that includes reading, speaking, and writing. |

|Capsule Vocabulary is an activity that takes about 15-20 minutes to complete. |

|Students should be paired up into groups of two. |

|Students take a set of about ten terms that have been introduced and intentionally work them into a conversation with classmates. |

|The pairs record that words that have been used. |

|After each partner talks through the set of words, they individually write a summary of the topic containing the terms. |

|Then the pairs exchange papers and comment on each other’s word usage. |

|Comments and/or tips: |

|Capsule Vocabulary is a technique that stresses social aspects of word learning by having students purposely, yet informally, talk |

|about related sets of words and their meanings (Crist, 1975). |

|Source: |

|Crist, B. J. (1975). One capsule a week- a painless remedy for vocabulary skills. Journal of Reading, 19, 147-149. |

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