Vocabulary Digital Storytelling in Content Area Classrooms is a method for teaching vocabulary that: 1) Uses stories to connect unfamiliar content area vocabulary terms to familiar concepts in order to improve student understanding. 2) Has students create narrative or informational projects highlighting vocabulary terms from their content areas. 3) Links vocabulary terms in new ways to support learning according to research on effective vocabulary instruction and multimodal learning.

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Goal
Following research-based
practices linking literacy
development with content area
understanding, the goal of
Vocabulary Digital Stories is to
bridge the conceptual gap
between content area vocabulary
and story elements.
Vocabulary Digital Storytelling in
Content Area Classrooms
Dr. Susan J. Wegmann,
Chair, Teacher Education Division,
Director of Institutional Research
The Baptist College of Florida
Vocabulary Digital Storytelling
• Using robust vocabulary instruction
(Beck, McKeown, & Kucan, 2013) to couch content
area vocabulary terms within a story in order to
create natural transfer to familiar concepts.
• Creating narrative or nonfiction projects to highlight
content area words as tools (Nagy &
Townsend, 2013).
• Linking content area vocabulary terms in new ways
(Schleppegrell, 2013), to support learning.
• Bloom’s Digital taxonomy suggests that “Creation”
is at the apex of thinking.
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Significance
• Use of vocabulary terms in creative ways helps
student learning
(Kissel, Wood, Hientschel, 2013).
• Writing sustains & informs reading
(Shannahan, 2006).
• Multimodal projects provide a foundation for
understanding.
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Conclusions
Vocabulary Digital Storytelling in content areas
provides support and incentive for vocabulary
development.
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