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By: Lindsay Carleton, Robert J. Marzano

Make direct vocabulary instruction fun and successful. Hundreds of vocabulary terms handpicked by Dr. Marzano cover four content areas and all grade levels.

Vocabulary Games for the Classroom

Make direct vocabulary instruction fun and successful with this simple, straightforward, and easy-to-use book. Hundreds of critical vocabulary terms handpicked by
Dr. Marzano cover four content areas and all grade levels. Each game identifies the appropriate grade level and subject area, as well as whether or not the students should already be familiar with the vocabulary.

Find instructions for 13 vocabulary games spanning grades K-12.

Gain hundreds of key vocabulary terms and phrases in four subject areas-language arts, math, science, and social studies-compiled from Dr. Marzano's work with schools, districts, and states.

Understand the importance of a strong vocabulary from early grades through high school and in all subject areas.

Discover practical suggestions for incorporating vocabulary into all subject areas in fun ways.

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"Good vocabulary skills are an invaluable skill for coming off well in todays world. [This book] is a guide for educators and teachers on how to emphasize the importance of vocabulary in todays world through classroom games and other activities that will teach students the material while masking it under fun. Not just for language arts, these are excellent ways to teach math and science terms as well. For educators looking for ways to captivate their students further, [this book] is a useful and very highly recommended resource."

The Midwest Book Review, January 2011

"Children, and adults, love to play games. Games are not only entertaining, they can also be highly educational. In this book, Lindsay Carleton and Robert Marzano present detailed descriptions and instructions for a baker's dozen of engaging games for building and reinforcing students' academic vocabulary. Word study is no longer something to be dreaded. With these games students, and teachers, will surely want to make word study a regular part of their school day!"

Tim Rasinski, professor of literacy education, Kent State University, Ohio

Reproducibles

These reproducibles include handouts to copy and share, as well as forms you can fill in electronically.
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Make direct vocabulary instruction fun and successful with this simple, straightforward, and easy-to-use book. Hundreds of critical vocabulary terms handpicked byDr. Marzano cover four content areas and all grade levels. Each game identifies the appropriate grade level and subject area, as well as whether or not the students should already be familiar with the vocabulary.

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This quiz will help you assess current knowledge and determine which words to work on first. Based on the results, you'll receive a printable resource packet that includes images, descriptions, and fun activities. You'll also gain full access to online videos designed to empower learners to explore new terms independently.

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How to use the Building Basic Vocabulary Tool

Your child has taken the assessment, and you've identified a vocabulary cluster of focus. Now it's time for the learning to begin. Simply select the cluster from the "All Cluster" drop down menu and click the red "Search" button. A table will appear with videos and downloadable tools tailored to your child's needs. Watch the videos below to learn step-by-step how to make the most of these learning resources.

How to Use the Vocabulary Learning Resources

How Do I Determine My Student's Proficiency Level?

Please note: The materials contained in this database are copyrighted, and the availability of these materials does not constitute a transfer of any intellectual property rights. Marzano Resources encourages users to download and print these materials to improve their classrooms and schools, but the materials may not be sold or distributed without the written consent of Marzano Resources.

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Rely on 180 Days of Self-Care for Busy Educators to help you lead a happier, healthier, more fulfilled life inside and outside of the classroom. With author Tina H. Boogren's guidance, you will work your way through thirty-six weeks of daily self-care strategies and techniques, each corresponding with a week of the school year. Weekly themes range from creativity and inspiration to relationships and time management for teachers and administrators.
Benefits

Understand how prioritizing your own self-care will better equip you to positively impact student learning and achievement.

Discover low- and no-cost self-care ideas for teachers and administrators designed to help make meaningful, positive change.

Explore the dangers of stress in the classroom and in an educator's personal life, and understand how this stress affects students.

Learn how to assess what you need, check in with yourself throughout the day, and act on what you learn.

Utilize reflection questions to help you think through which strategies worked-and which didn't.

Let go of the expectations of perfection while practicing these self-care techniques and teacher wellness ideas.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Epilogue: Create Your Own Self-Care List

PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES

SUGGESTED RESOURCES

BOOKS

Boogren, T. H. (2018). Take Time for You: Self-Care Action Plans for Educators. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.

Hillman, G., & Stalets, M. (2019). Coaching Your Classroom: How to Deliver Actionable Feedback to Students. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.

Iberlin, J. M. (2017). Cultivating Mindfulness in the Classroom. Bloomington, IN: Marzano Resources.

Mason, C., Rivers Murphy, M. M., & Jackson, Y. (2019). Mindfulness Practices: Cultivating Heart Centered Communities Where Students Focus and Flourish. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.

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CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

Week Eleven

Week Fourteen

Week Seventeen

CHAPTER 3

Week Twenty

Week Twenty-Four

Week Twenty-Five

Week Twenty-Six

Meditation Applications

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Strategies to Awaken the Learner

By: Robert J. Marzano, Darrell Scott, Tina H. Boogren, Ming Lee Newcomb

Discover a results-driven framework-based on a six-level hierarchy of student needs and goals-that you can use to provide engaging instruction to students.

Motivating and Inspiring Students

Bringing motivation and inspiration to the classroom is not easy. With this practical resource, you'll discover a results-driven framework-based on a six-level hierarchy of student needs and goals-that you can use to provide engaging instruction to students. The authors share comprehensive understandings of the nature of motivation and inspiration and detail-specific strategies to connect with your students.

Gain specific chapter-ending guidance on how to use the book's strategies.

Consider scenarios that portray how the book's suggestions might play out in the classroom.

Review mindsets, dispositions, and behaviors that result in negative, unhelpful thinking and in positive, productive thinking.

Study step-by-step processes that ensure students' needs get met in individual classrooms.

Use the Awaken the Learner Snapshot Student Survey to assess students' levels of engagement, attention, motivation, and inspiration in school.

"This book takes the reader from research to application, providing information to help create an environment where students can connect to something beyond just self and be inspired. Using this book, you can change the learning environment in schools to be more fruitful and sustaining."

Gail Pletnick, superintendent of Dysart Unified School District, and AASA president-elect, Arizona

"You may have heard it said that the fastest way to find out who the best teachers are in a school is to ask the students. The problem with this method of discovery is that the reasons why some teachers are able to reach the minds and hearts of students while others miss the mark is not as easily articulated. Marzano, Scott, Boogren, and Newcomb go beyond Maslow's hierarchy of needs in Motivating and Inspiring Students. This new work addresses the role of long-neglected concepts such as altruism, empathy, forgiveness, gratitude, and mindfulness (to name a few). Beginning with understanding every person's need to make connections with something greater than self, this book provides theory supported with activities and worksheets that make Motivating and Inspiring Students a must for every teacher and administrator who wishes to reach the heart of our students. Together with the inspiring work done by Darrell Scott through Rachel's Challenge, this book provides every educator with the 'why' and 'how' to implement the most critical elements of motivation and inspiration for learners in our care. Our students become lifelong learners when skilled educators make the right connections with them. Motivating and Inspiring Students helps you get there."

Arturo Delgado, former county superintendent of Los Angeles Schools, California

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Typing might be faster, but longhand stays with you better.

Picture this: it's a work day at an enterprise payments processing company, and there is a critical data engineering task that needs to be completed. In this case, I'm the data engineer who needs to finish the task, but I am missing information necessary for my data model to be finished. I heard the information in a meeting. It was discussed in the daily standup. I have some vague typed notes, but I can't recall the technical details I need to finish my work. No one is available to answer my question. It's then that it hits me: I should have written down notes by hand during the meeting.

Writing notes by hand would have given me several different tangible resources that could help me find the critical missing information: a stronger memory of the meeting I was in, the gaps in the details of the discussion that occurred, and the notes themselves that would help me trigger a stronger recall of the events just by reviewing them on paper. Detailed typed notes would not help my recall and retention of the information in the meetings in the same way that notes written by hand would, though they would have been helpful.

It's hard to keep documentation accurate for a whole organization or even a team with day-to-day process, programming, business, and client changes at the micro and macro levels. But as individuals who consume new information on a minute-by-minute basis, we can learn what we need to with more information retention, cognitive recall, stronger reading comprehension, and a tactile, visual memory of the information we consumed just by hand writing our notes. Writing by hand still remains the most powerful way to learn and retain information.

It would come as no surprise to most people that human beings are visual learners. This applies even to writing, though at first written words and visual learning may seem different. When a person thinks of "visual learning", what may be pictured are videos, images, and other forms of graphic information and media. Yet letters and words are visual representations of a mutually-agreed upon social communication form: written language.

When a young human is learning to read, they must first learn to recognize the different shapes called "letters" that belong to their native alphabet. A letter means nothing to a person who does not know what sound or function that letter is supposed to represent in language. So as human beings, before we learn what a word is, we first must learn that the graphical representation of a letter means something. We must also learn the differences between individual letters as well as variations in the shapes, sizes, and styles of those letters.

In a 2012 study published in Trends in Neuroscience and Education, researchers Karin James and Laura Engelhardt observed of pre-literate children, "When children begin to print, their motor output (of a letter) does not conform to prototypical lettering: each output (which is also the perceptual input) can be said to be noisy relative to the model." Despite the fact that the children's recreation of a letter was messy compared to the letter model, their brains still accurately recognized that the letter they drew was the same one they attempted to copy. As James and Engelhardt said, the children recognized these letters "presumably because the children themselves created them." This is visual learning and acumen: the children needed to learn what an individual letter looked like in its various "noisy" and exemplary forms in order to identify and comprehend that letter in the future, regardless of its representation.

Handwriting is a unique expression of each person who learns to write; they represent letters and words as a written output of what they perceive those letters to be. James and Engelhardt showed in their study that this repetitive, creative handwriting also creates stronger reading comprehension and maturity of language recognition. "The most novel result of our ROI analysis," say James and Engelhardt, "is that visual processing of letters is affected by specific motor experience-the act of printing a letter".

One of the most important parts of learning new information is the ability to retain it and recall it later when it is relevant. Writing by hand on paper creates a tactile, personalized experience each time a person takes notes. The complex experience of hand writing on paper contains a multitude of variable elements: the creativity of an individual's written representation of language, the texture of the paper itself, the fine motor skills needed to translate thoughts into written language, the engagement of the physical senses, and even the reading comprehension strength that we learned of earlierAll of these complexities create a stronger memory of the information that is taken in during the note taking.

There have been a few scientific studies done on the subject of information processing through digital note taking and notes taken by hand. A recent study led by neuroscientist Professor Kuniyoshi Sakai at the University of Tokyo published in March 2021 showed that subjects who recorded calendar event information on paper showed more brain activity than subjects who recorded the same information onto a smartphone when they attempted to recall details about that calendar information later. And they recalled/entered the information 25% faster when writing it by hand.

Professor Sakai suggests that analog and paper learning experiences cannot be mimicked by the uniform ways in which digital devices represent information. "Digital tools have uniform scrolling up and down and standardized arrangement of text and picture size, like on a webpage. But if you remember a physical textbook printed on paper, you can close your eyes and visualize the photo one-third of the way down on the left-side page, as well as the notes you added in the bottom margin," says the neuroscientist. That stronger tactile memory is easier for the brain to recall later on even when the paper isn't present later; so is the information the brain associates with that learning experience.

We know that typing does not engage the brain with the same level of cognitive interaction as handwriting for various reasons. This has been a hot topic in the early education sphere around the world for over a decade as typed notes and digital notepads become more and more popular in classrooms. In fact, replacing handwriting with typing notes could be detrimental to early literacy skills because it lacks the creativity necessary for strong reading comprehension and faster note-taking.

In a study from the Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology , Professor Audrey van der Meer confirms that a keystroke on a keyboard lacks the creativity of handwriting and won't challenge memory the way that writing by hand does. Two professors from University of Umeå, Sweden champion writing by hand for students as a cognitive process necessary for the best learning experience: "Think of writing as learning an instrument: separate skills...need to be practiced in order for the player to become independent of the mechanics and allow for full expression of...the meaning."

Although typing notes can be useful and even faster for some note-takers, ultimately it does not have the cognitive, tactile, memory, or visual cognitive effects that people can get when they write by hand. Typing notes can be good, but it won't make it easier to remember what was said later on.

Perhaps you're like me and you already take notes by hand sometimes. I hope you've been writing down the parts of this blog that you want to remember if that's the case! If not and you also like to type sometimes like me, be nice to your hands as you begin your handwritten note journey again. Be prepared to feel challenged physically and mentally as you develop a new practice. Spend some money on a notebook you like, with paper that feels good against the rough scratch or smooth roll of your favorite pen. Those tactile moments will live in your mind when you want the information again later.

Writing by hand remains the best way to take in new information. It helps with reading comprehension, creativity, memory, and information retention in ways that are unmatched by other learning tools. Your writing, your shorthand, and your notes that look incomprehensible to others are a special part of your processing that help you learn in your way. So go ahead and get writing. By hand, of course.

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