A guide for helping students

with content vocabulary

When teaching new vocabulary words do your students look like this?

If you answered yes, we will be using interactive program today that your students just might beg you to use!

The students think they are playing games, but you will know they are learning.

What is this program?

• The program’s name is Quizlet. • The way it works is simple: you create a free account with Quizlet Once done, you can either create your own flashcards or use one of the many lists listed on the Quizlet website.

Use

Uses:Introduce Topic Vocab & hear pronunciation

Familiarize/Study Key Terms

Practice Spelling & Listening Skills

Track student progress if they create an account (Students must have an email address that they can access to verify account)

Create short, printable vocabulary quizzes

Hold team vocabulary competitions using IWB

Familiarize

• Once cards are created, students are ready to GO forward and start practicing their new words.

• You can choose to have the students either look at the word, definition or both. It is at this stage that they are familiarizing themselves with their new words.

Speller

Speller allows your student to practice spelling key vocabulary words by listening to the word being pronounced.

Now you can tell your students….

YES! Spelling Counts!!!!

Learn

• This feature allows students to test their skills as they type the correct word for the listed definition

• The students record is listed in the upper left hand corner of the screen. It highlights:

• how many words remain• how many words are incorrect • how many words are correct.

Learn

• Learn keeps track of what terms students had difficulty with and will re-quiz the students until they have gotten all terms correct.

*much of Quizlet has been updated with an auditory feature that allows words/definitions to be read out loud to the student

Test

• This feature allows for students to quiz themselves to see just how well they have been studying

• It also allows you to print the test for a “quick” mini-quiz that you can print out for a Do Now or Exit assessment

Scatter

• Scatter is a nice way for students to play a game that reinforces vocab skills

• Students can work individually or in a group to drag the words to the matching definition

Monitor Progress

Space Race

• The definitions fly across the screen. • Students must type the correct word in the box at the

bottom of the screen. • If incorrect or not fast enough, the game pauses, word

& definition appear to reinforce the term and the student is prompted to copy the correct word. Once this step is completed the game resumes.

Printable Flashcards

• Quizlet provides many new formats to create printable flashcards

This is helpful for: • Students without computers• Creating classroom set of flashcards, etc.

Yes…you can embed!

• A great feature about quizlet is that you can link to your newest vocab, or better yet…Embed the flashcards or other activities right into your webpage!