Learning Strategies Curriculum

1. Learning Strategies Curriculum The LINCS Vocabulary Strategy

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaMPvr92Li4S Dr. Donald Deshler, Director of University of Kansas Center of Research on Learning

3. Where do we go from here? Vocabulary is the crux of comprehension and tactics that require students to transform information through the use of visual images, mnemonic devices or activating prior knowledge prove to be both effective and efficient. Edwin S. Ellis, 2000

4. The best readers and learners follow systematic plans for “thinking smart” and using sets of thinking tactics. Example: Using the words “came far” can you remember the countries that fought as allies during WWII? EFFECTIVE LEARNING STRATEGY

5. CAME FAR Canada Australia Mexico England France America Russia

6. WHO THEY ARE: WHAT THEY DO: • Active learners • Think carefully about what they are learning • Understand information • Learn things easier • Learn more information • Remember what they have studied • Set goals and work toward these • Ask questions for understanding • Change and manipulate information for easier understanding and remembrance • Spend less time studying • Use effective strategies for learning and expressing information Characteristics of Strategic Learners

7. For remembering the meaning of new words Use LINCS to remember : • Focuses your attention on the parts of the definition you need to remember • Activates prior knowledge • Involves self checking • Science • Social Studies • Language Arts • Vocational • Technology • Mathematical About the LINCS strategy

8. Step 1: List the parts of the word • Step 2: Identify a reminding word • Step 3: Note a LINCing story • Step 4: Create a LINCing picture • Step 5: Self test LINCS

9. Test your knowledge

10. May sound like a part or all of the new word • MUST be a real word • Has a meaning that you already know • Always helps you remember what the new word means Effective REMINDING Words

11. Includes the reminding word or a form of the reminding word • Links the reminding word to the meaning of the new word • Is short and simple • Can be humorous or bizarre Effective LINCING Story

12. LINCS MEMORY CHAIN transforms a potentially weak link between a word and its definition into a chain of very strong links

13. QUESTIONS ???????? NOW IT’S YOUR TURN

14. zibble • tamar • kiko • alster • crosstex • lamber • zemac • bayshoo • dectrum • motosa • Food made from grain and honey • A wild horse • Shoes decorated with beads • Cooked fish • Necklace worn to ward off evil • A religious holiday • A tribal leader • A medicine man • Clay pottery used for eating/cooking • Spear like weapon used for hunting Vocabulary for you to try!

15. Let’s Share

16. Define the following: 1.bayshoo – 2.kiko - 3.lamber – 4.zemac – 5.tamar – Fill in with correct word: 6. Fish that’s been cooked 7. Pot in which the fish were cooked 8. Hunting weapon 9. Tasty grain and honey mixture 10. Wear this to ward off evil Always test your lincs