The Six-Step Process for Teaching Academic Vocabulary

by Robert Marzano

1. The teacher provides a description, explanation or example of the new term.

2. Students restate the explanation of the new term in their own words.

3. Students create a nonlinguistic representation of the term.

4. Students periodically do activities that help them add to their knowledge of vocabulary terms.

5. Periodically, students are asked to discuss the terms with one another.

6. Periodically, students are involved in games that allow them to play with the terms.

from Building Academic Knowledge by Robert Marzano