Print vocabulary sets as cards for offline recycling. Use words plus gapped sentences rather than definitions, because co-text carries meaning. 20 items fit one page.
Selected activities
- Match + recall: match gapped-sentence cards to words, then recall the words with the word cards hidden.
- Peer assessment: fill gaps on blank-backed cards, swap, check, score.
- How many do you remember?: sort cards into known/unknown; repeat next lesson to see the gain.
- Guess the word: explain the word without saying it or the bold chunk words.
- Put it in context: write one sentence, then two (the first sets context, the second contains the target).
- Cloze on the board: stick sentence strips under a word bank, to music.
- Closed-circle cloze: find your group of three by matching strips.
Apply in my context (Claude)
- Several of these work as Tanga-earning retrieval games with no devices needed, and the “How many do you remember?” count gives you a delayed-recall measure for free.
Connections
Spaced retrieval is the best-supported technique · Teach lexically - collocations as minimum units of meaning