VOCABULARY

Refer to the reading section of this site if you are planning to teach vocabulary along with text. The focus of this page is providing multiple forms of “representation” under the UDL guidelines. If students need to look up the meaning of a word, try https://visuwords.com/. This website creates a concept map to show how words are related to each other. 

When you are teaching new words, the following strategies/tools can enhance what you are already doing: 

• Acrostics

• Word drawings

• Word journal

• Predictions

• Word walls