How+To+Make+Vocabulary+Stick!

== Please share one teaching strategy that you employed recently (perhaps one that you focused on in your PDP?) that you feel made academic vocabulary STICK in your students' brains. ==

Describe the strategy, how you interjected it into the lesson, what were some of the outcomes, and how you assessed it.
One teaching strategy recently used was making the vocabulary available to students online while creating Print Ads. This link provides information covered in the Advertising Unit in Media: http://humanitiesmedia.jimdo.com/print-advertising/

We started this lesson out by comparing and contrasting persuasion and propaganda. Afterwards we explored the history of mass advertising and I showed examples of advertising from each stage through the years. Then students were introduced to advertising techniques used to sell a project. Eventually, I showed students examples of print ads from old time postcards and http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/advertising/

Students were then asked to create a print ad focusing on a stage of mass advertising and an advertising technique. The academic vocabulary for this unit stuck in students minds, because they were able to apply the term mentioned in class to a finished product created in Photoshop. Student work is shown here: http://humanitiesmedia.jimdo.com/print-ads/ (Scheib)

Wordle is awesome! I used it to introduce the vocabulary in an atrticle that students would be using to complete a written common task. The visual appeal of this website is fun and engaging for kids and it forces them to look at the words that are actually used in texts! (Huber)