The classroom teacher and I, along with a teacher intern, co-planned a Vocab LINCing lesson to foster and enhance the students' preparation for reading and ultimately writing their own original poems. Successes included three groups of students being highly engaged in the routine while learning new vocabulary words such as fester, imagery, and deferred. Students created their own LINCs tables abiding by the routine. The only issues were the time it took for students to create the tables. The teachers and I resolved the issue of teaching words out of context by including the poem "A Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes in the lesson. Our pre-planning was invaluable and resulted in an effective lesson for students.
