This article focuses on how a multi-strategy approach can assist students in learning new social studies content vocabulary. The article provides a case study that includes three groups of students which focused on different methods of vocabulary acquisition. The article notes that a multi-strategy approach is the best for assisting students in learning new vocabulary.
One of the things I found interesting was "students first learned to ask important questions
about the text to guide their thinking and then used questions to help them
develop a main-idea statement for a short section of text. They then learned to
combine several main idea statements into a longer summary with the aid of a
graphic organizer." These strategies were taught and practiced for six weeks at a time, before a new one was introduced.
