1. LINCS Vocabulary Strategy

2. Some questions to start…
How did you do on your quiz?
What strategies did you use to study?

3. Strategic Learners… Who they are: What they do: Are active learners
Think carefully about what they are learning
Understand information better
Learn things more easily
Learn more information
Remember things more easily
Set goals and work toward them
Ask questions to ensure understanding
Organize, change, and manipulate information to make understanding and remembering easier
Spend less time studying
Get better grades
Use effective strategies for learning and expressing information

4. Why are we learning this?
Better understand what you read/hear
Use words in discussion
Use words in writing
Better grades on tests
All kinds of reasons!

5. How are we learning this?
Like a basketball play…
Coach draws the play and tells players what’s supposed to happen. Coach demonstrates key parts of the play. Players discuss the play and memorize what they have to do. In practice, players walk through the play in slow motion; coach helps. Players practice against other team members; coach watches and gives feedback. Players run the play in a real game. Watch game film; change or practice more if necessary.
Explain the LINCS steps.
Demonstrate use of LINCS steps.
Students explain the steps to each other and memorize.
Students practice; teacher helps them.
Students use strategy on actual vocab, take practice quizzes, get feedback.
Students use strategy to study for real tests.
Students check to see how well it helped; change or practice if necessary.
An expert explains what to do. Modeling by an expert. Understand/memorize. Learning how it feels to do it in simple situations. Learning how to do it in situations similar to the real thing. Using it on the real thing. Evaluating and adapting.

6. LINCS is…
A plan for learning that includes “thinking smart” and using a SET of thinking tactics.
Used for remembering the meaning of new words.
Example: Mnemonic Devices
HOMES
Never Eat Shredded Wheat
My very educated mother just served us noodles
30 days hath September…
Righty…
In 1492…
“If it’s blue, you’re…”
If it’s blue, you’re glue… if it’s red, you’re dead…. “Mission Impossible”

7. All about the strategy…
Always
Sometimes
Never
Helps you remember the meaning of a new word
Focuses your attention on the parts of the definition you need to remember
Uses knowledge you already have to help you learn new things
Involves testing yourself to check whether you can recall the meaning of the new word
Helps you remember the meaning of some words in a list of related words
Is easy to apply to some words; is difficult to apply to other words
Involves leaving out some steps because they are not needed
Is used when a different strategy is better for memorizing a particular word
Is used when you already know what the word means
If it’s blue, you’re glue… if it’s red, you’re dead…. “Mission Impossible”

8. The LINCS acronym stands for:
List the parts Identify a reminding word Note a LINCing Story Create a LINCing Picture Self-test
If it’s blue, you’re glue… if it’s red, you’re dead…. “Mission Impossible”

9. The LINCS acronym stands for:
List the parts
List the word on the front of a study card.
List the most important parts of the definition on the back.
If it’s blue, you’re glue… if it’s red, you’re dead…. “Mission Impossible”

10. The LINCS acronym stands for:
Identify a reminding word
Think of a familiar word that sounds like the new word, or part of the word.
Write it under the new word.
An effective reminding word:
ALWAYS sounds like part or all of the new word, is a REAL word, has a meaning that you already know, and helps you remember what the new word means.
SOMETIMES sounds like part of the new word, rhymes with the new word or sounds like almost all of the new word, has a meaning that is very similar to the new word’s meaning, can be 2 or more words that sound like the new word
NEVER sounds completely different from the new word, is a nonsense word, or has a meaning you don’t know
If it’s blue, you’re glue… if it’s red, you’re dead…. “Mission Impossible”

11. The LINCS acronym stands for:
Note a LINCing Story
Make up a short story (a couple of sentences) about the meaning of the new word that includes the reminding word.
An effective LINCing Story…
Always includes the Reminding Word or some form of it, links the Reminding Word to the meaning of the new word, is short and simple
Sometimes includes both the Reminding Word and the new word, is funny or bizarre
Never includes only the new word and the Reminding Word, is so complex that it takes a lot of energy to remember it, is long like a paragraph, or includes words you don’t understand.
If it’s blue, you’re glue… if it’s red, you’re dead…. “Mission Impossible”

12. The LINCS acronym stands for:
Create a LINCing Picture
Create an image in your mind of what the word is about.
Draw the image on the bottom right half of the back of the study card.
An effective LINCing Picture contains a part related to the Reminding Word, contains parts related to the important idea in the definition, helps you remember the new word’s definition
If it’s blue, you’re glue… if it’s red, you’re dead…. “Mission Impossible”

13. The LINCS acronym stands for:
Self-Test
Self test “forwards”
Say the new word.
Say the Reminding Word.
Think of the LINCing Story.
Think of the LINCing Picture.
Say the meaning of the new word.
Check to see if you’re correct.
Self test “backwards”
Think of the Reminding Word.
This is how we learn the strategy– as we use the strategy, our brains will move more quickly and these steps will become so natural you don’t even realize you’re doing them!
If it’s blue, you’re glue… if it’s red, you’re dead…. “Mission Impossible”

14. Like a chain… Different pieces of knowledge are linked together…
If you can remember the information in one of the links in a chain, you will remember information in the other links.
If it’s blue, you’re glue… if it’s red, you’re dead…. “Mission Impossible”
When you apply the LINCS Strategy, you create a chain between the word and its meaning.
The stronger the links between pieces of information, the easier you can remember them.
Using the LINCS strategy transforms a potentially weak link between a word and its definition into a chain of very strong links.

15. The LINCS acronym stands for:
List the parts Identify a reminding word Note a LINCing Story Create a LINCing Picture Self-test
If it’s blue, you’re glue… if it’s red, you’re dead…. “Mission Impossible”

16. The LINCS acronym stands for:
List the parts Identify a reminding word Note a LINCing Story Create a LINCing Picture Self-test
If it’s blue, you’re glue… if it’s red, you’re dead…. “Mission Impossible”

17. Side One
thorax

18. Side Two
Upper part of torso: the part of the human body between the neck and abdomen

19. Side One
thorax
Lorax

20. Side Two
Upper part of torso: the part of the human body between the neck and abdomen
Most of the Lorax is his thorax; no Who has a torso like his!

21. Side Two
Upper part of torso: the part of the human body between the neck and abdomen
Most of the Lorax is his thorax; no Who has a torso like his!