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How Movement and Repetition Help Vocabulary Stick
A daily routine that combines visual, auditory, and kinesthetic inputs helps students learn new words, recognize them when reading, and remember their meanings.
At Clinton Valley Elementary School in Michigan, fifth-grade teacher Samantha DiCicco helps students in her small fluency group build vocabulary through a short multisensory routine that incorporates movement and repetition. At the end of every day, students spend a few minutes practicing four or five words from their core curriculum, doing call and response chants with the words and their definitions along with hand motions. By introducing the vocabulary before they encounter it in their reading, DiCicco gives students a chance to become familiar with the words and their meanings ahead of time.
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