Go Back to the Dictionary

​Modern day learning provides students with many different tools. Yet the quality of learning does not always improve. Why is this so?

Perhaps there are too many tools out there and the students are lost? Maybe students think that they can check the Internet anytime anyway, so they end up not checking when they really should be?

I have been encouraging my students to go back to the dictionary. Be it a physical or digital dictionary, students have to get into the habit of checking words they partially or entirely don't understand. Sometimes we do pre-reading / pre-writing activities like Meaning Matching to help build a vocabulary bank.

Check it once and get a clear understanding. You can remember much better.

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