4-Square+Vocabulary

Chris Ramos (World Famous)

==﻿4-Square Vocabulary==

What is 4-Square Vocabulary? 4-Square Vocabulary (4sv) is a great visual usage for learning not just words, but anything. 4sv is an effective teaching strategy that allows students to study the meaning of a word, the usage and tenses and allows students to see the word in various sentences. This strategy is not only a visual activity but it also encourages students to participate and take notes (kinestetic learning). 4-Square Vocabulary focuses on four areas of the word: What is great about 4sv is the visualization. Students are participating in the organization of the chart with their own ideas. They are constantly calling out ideas about the word and learning each word as a class. The kinestetic learning is also valuable in this strategy. As students are listening to responses, they are writing down their smaller version of 4sv. (Organization of thoughts onto paper) After a single word is finished, students have written down the definition, the word tenses and a number of sentences using the word. Not only has the student written the word enough times to remembr, the student has also used the word a number of times in different sentences to fully understand the meaning.
 * 1) Students response to the word.
 * 2) Dictionary definition of the word with the word pronunciation.
 * 3) Word used in a sentence.
 * 4) Word tenses or other uses for the word.


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