LINCS Vocabulary

Strategy

Hope Street Academy

Reading Improvement

An Overview of the LINCS Strategy

Step 1A: List the term

Step 1B: List the parts of the definition

Step 2: Identify a Reminding Word

Step 3: Note a LINCing Story

Step 4: Create a LINCing Picture

Step 5: Self-test

Step 1A: List the term

Word is listed neatly

Step 1B: List the parts of the definition

List the most important parts of the definition

Note: Students may need a lot of support with this step.

Step 2: Identify a Reminding Word

Reminding words sound like or rhyme with all or part of the term

Step 3:Note a LINCing Story

Story uses the reminding word

Story gets across the meaning of the word

Step 4: Create a LINCing Picture

Picture illustrates story in an obvious manner

Step 5: Self-test

Self-test was completed with self, peer or partner

How do we give students the support they need to be successful?

Scaffolding:

I do it

We do it

Y’all do it

You do it

Why does it work?

Auditory focus on making semantic (meaning) connections between the most important semantic features of a new term’s definition, and semantic features of a common, well-known word that has similar phonetic features. Visual links provide students with a kind of mind map that also helps students remember the essential features of the meaning of new terms.