Students need multiple opportunities for exposure to new vocabulary terms in order to remember and apply the words appropriately. I found this knowledge scale to be an effective way to engage students through multiple ways of looking at the words.
Vocabulary Knowledge
Scale
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Word
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I
have never seen or heard the word, but I don’t know what it means
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have seen or heard the word but I don’t know what it means
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I
think I know what it means
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I
know the definition of the word
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I
can use the word in a sentence or in math class
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Brainstorm
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Meaning/
Example/
Illustration
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Vertex
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Composite
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Parallel
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Perpendicular
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Skew
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Vertical Angles
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Adjacent Angles
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Straight Angles
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Complimentary Angles
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Supplementary Angles
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Area
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Circumference
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