[LIT] What is the most effective thing you do as a literacy teacher?

[Melinda Haynes]

Are you familiar with VSS (Vocabulary Self Selection)?  It is exactly what you described with allowing your student to select his favorite words.  I use VSS as my main vocab strategy for all of my students in fifth grade.

Melinda Hawkins
5th Grade ELA/SS
McCulloch Intermediate School
Highland Park ISD
(214) 780-2325
haynesm at hpisd.org