Teaching History Vocabulary Sample Lessons

Not sure where to start with teaching history vocabulary? Or maybe you teach history vocabulary but your students are not understanding or retaining vocabulary words! Not only are learning content vocabulary words CRUCIAL to helping students with reading comprehension, writing, and Historical understanding, but it can honestly affect their ability to answer complex History questions as well! So what do we do? Whether you teach high school history, middle school history, AP History courses, or elementary, this video will provide insight about how to best scaffold learners into learning social studies vocabulary for your course. In this video, I share tips for teaching history vocabulary such as: how to materials effectively for instruction, how to make history vocabulary words STICK and 3 easy activity ideas you can use for introducing, practicing, and assessing vocabulary comprehension.