Engaging students in crafting their own dictionaries is a helpful exercise that encourages them to monitor their own learning and engage in a habit that will support them in becoming autonomous learners. You can have your students create basic dictionaries but you can put a spin on the exercise by inviting them to create image or GIF dictionaries. Creating a multimodal dictionary with images and GIFs gives students the opportunity to anchor their definition of a term in multiple modes and emotions.
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