Chapter 3- Vocabulary

Before reading this chapter, I was not too excited about it because in school I was never too fond of vocabulary or really English for that matter. When I was in school, the only "strategy" that we used in our classrooms was to write a definition, put it with a sentence, and study it for a test at the end of the week. Looking back, this did not help me at all, maybe I learned some words, but I can't imagine how many more I could have learned if I had these strategies mentioned in the chapter. I loved how one of the strategies mentioned in the book was to do a word wall with your students starting with typically 5 words and doing and interesting "revealing games to help the students in understanding and knowing the vocabulary better. I would have personally loved this if I was younger because that would be better than having 20 words all at once and not knowing what to do or what any of them mean and learning in a fun way while doing it.
 Another thing that spiked my interest was when in the chapter of how they explained and talked about how to pull in personal connections for students (own ways of learning). When students are able to come up with their own ways of learning vocabulary words, it will help them in learning themselves new words. We know ourselves and how we learn best, so when we put work into our own words it will and can help students succeed. Most student's might have difficulty in science or with social studies relating to the vocabulary words or really understanding them, but when students are allowed to put certain words like "photosynthesis" or "chemistry" it will make it easier to understand and be able to even help other peers out with it as well. I like
I am really glad that I read this chapter now and I look at vocabulary with more than just a boring perspective since I had such a bad experience with it when I was younger. The only question I have now would be are there any other "games" or activities that teachers could use to involve students in on using vocabulary?