A fourth-grade teacher has recently finished teaching a list of 20 vocabulary words associated with the short story they are studying. She breaks the class into five groups and assigns four vocabulary words from the list to each group. Each group chooses a word to act out in front of the class while the other groups sit silently watching the presentation. The groups then have five minutes to discuss what word was being acted out. The teacher asks each group what word they think it is, and each group that is correct earns a point. Each group performs multiple times until all the words have been acted out. This activity will help students retain the meanings of the vocabulary words they have learned by: