1. Date and Reflection

Attended Training at Pattan for the Vocabulary Lincing Routine on 12/4/18 and 12/5/18

I really liked the vocabulary lincing routine.  So many time oral language is an area of significant deficit with many of the teams I work with.  I really am glad to see a way for students to learn new words and connect them to smaller, or well-known words. 

I attended the Vocabulary LINCing Routine at PATTAN Harrisburg on December 4-5,2018. We learned about the LINCS Table and the Overview of LINCS.  

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HmnHSdrSMWD_Y6n2fzftAprf5u5v1VgM

It is interesting concept and I will be interested to see how this works with my students.

I feel that teachers will be receptive to this routine because it is quick and easy.  I'm also hoping that it is just a more formal way than what they are currently doing.

Completed this routine on December 5, 2017 at Burns Middle School in Lawndale, NC with instructor, Debbie Higginbotham. 
Vocabulary is a major concern for the schools where I have taught and also where I serve as a consultant. I think of how powerful this routine could be if a school adopted it. The tools of an auditory memory device and a visual memory device will benefit students tremendously to help them learn advanced vocabulary.

The Vocabulary LINCing Routine is a strategy students can use to assist in the development of vocabulary.  Students use pictures and words to help them remember the meanings of words.

On 12/5/18, I attended the SIM training at PaTTan Harrisburg.  The LINCing Routine uses auditory and visual memory devices to help students remember the meaning of important vocabulary.  I found that the most difficult part of the routine was connecting a GOOD reminding word to the story.  However, working through that process allows students to make connections to vocabulary that they may not have otherwise learned.  In presenting this to teachers, I feel that it is critical to stress that the purpose of this routine is to aide in recall - not conceptualizing the new terms.

The Vocabulary LINCing helps students learn and remember complex terms.  The example LINCS Tables are helpful.