I really enjoy teaching vocabulary now that we have learned so many fun and interesting ways to get kids involved with learning new words. With my 6th grade Title I group we did 3 activities: Have You Ever...?; Example/Nonexample; and Word Associations. I do pair-share to keep all them involved. Asking "Why?" lets me know their level of understanding and having them hear each other's explainations just deepens their understanding. For assessment we did the picture/vocabulary activity. Each student had word cards. I showed the picture and they chose the word/words to go with the picture and had to verbally tell why they chose those words. One student chose a word I hadn't thought about matching the picture, but he gave a plausible reason why. Perhaps next time I will make it written instead of oral.