LINCing Routine Observation

LINCing Routine lesson, teaching students how to use this multi-sensory word learning strategy.

1. DO NOW:
•What do you do when you are reading, and
you don’t know the meaning of a word?
•In what classes do you find the vocabulary to
be the most difficult? What study strategies
do you use to learn new words?
•Write/Share

2. Purpose:
We will learn and apply the LINCing Routine
-To increase our vocabulary
-Learn a strategy that will help us remember
and learn new words.

3. LINCing Routine:
1)TERM: the word we want to learn
Idiosyncrasy

4. LINCing Routine
2) DEFINITION: in our own words, so that we
understand it
Idiosyncrasy (N.) a characteristic, habit, mannerism,
or the like, that is peculiar to an individual
A person’s unusual habits or behaviors

5. LINCing Routine
3) REMINDING WORD:
-must SOUND like a part of the term
-you must KNOW the meaning of this word!!
TERM: Idiosyncrasy
REMINDING WORD: sink

6. LINCing Routine:
1)LINCing Story:
-A sentence that must contain
-REMINDING WORD
-IMPORTANT PARTS OF DEFINTION
The boy near the sink is behaving in an unusual
way.

7. LINCing Routine:
1)LINCing Picture:
A picture that must SHOW the LINCing story
-REMINDING WORD
-IMPORTANT PARTS OF
DEFINITION

8. Review:
What goes in box #1 on the LINCing sheet?
What is a reminding word? How does it help?
What must the LINCing Story contain?
What is the LINCing Picture and what does it contain?
Why are we learning this routine?

9. Let’s practice together:
Term: apprehensive
Definition: (adj.) uneasy or fearful about something that might
happen:
Our Definition:
Reminding Word:
LINCing Story:
LINCing Picture:

10. Let’s practice together:
Term: inexplicable
Definition: (adj.) not explicable; incapable of being accounted
for or explained.
Our definition:
Reminding Word:
LINCing Story:
LINCing Picture:

11. Let’s practice together:
Term: tremendous
Definition: (adj.) extraordinarily great in size, amount, or
intensity, extraordinary in excellence
Our definition:
Reminding Word:
LINCing Story:
LINCing Picture:

12. Practice in Pairs: Put these definitions into your own
words
Timorous: (adj.) characterized by or indicating fear
Pervading: (v.) to become spread throughout all parts of
Murmur: (n.) a low, continuous sound of low, indistinct voices; a
mumbled or private expression of discontent
Transfix: (n.) to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe,
terror, etc.
Incisive: (adj.) remarkably clear and direct; keen; sharp; acute

13. Practice in Pairs: Create a LINCing Routine/Share
Timorous: (adj.) characterized by or indicating fear
Pervading: (v.) to become spread throughout all parts of
Murmur: (n.) a low, continuous sound of low, indistinct voices; a
mumbled or private expression of discontent
Transfix: (n.) to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe,
terror, etc.
Incisive: (adj.) remarkably clear and direct; keen; sharp; acute

14. Using this routine to study:
Use the different parts of the routine when studying:
-use the LINCing picture and story
-use the reminding word and definition
-use the term
Study new words BACKWARDS and FORWARDS
-start with the word to get to the definition
-start with the definition to get to the word

15. Let’s Practice:
What is the term that means a person’s unusual behavior?
The reminding word is sink, and the definition is unusual
behavior ,what is the term?
The term is idiosyncrasy. What is the
-reminding word? …
-LINCing story? …
-Definition?
What term matches this LINCing picture?

16. Examples of questioning:
What is the term that means__________?
The reminding word is__________, and the
definition is __________,what is the term?
The term is___________. What is the
-reminding word? …
-LINCing story? …
-Definition?
What term matches this LINCing picture?

17. Let’s practice in pairs:
With your partner, practice questioning to study
the terms you created a LINCing routine for:
Inexplicabletimorous
Idiosyncrasyincisive
Apprehensive pervading
Extra Credit Words: tremendous, transfix, murmur

18. HOMEWORK:
Use the LINCing Routine to study for tomorrow’s
vocabulary quiz:
-Practice: BACKWARDS and FORWARDS
-Reflect: Was this word learning strategy
effective for me? Why or why not? What did
you like/dislike about it? (6 sentences!)