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Narrator: To effectively implement the six-step process, you'll need to set aside time to focus on vocabulary.

Adrian Leday: As far as the amount of time that it takes to prepare for lessons and this lesson planning cycle, if the time is invested on the front end, you don't have to invest as much time on the back end to review terms and to spend a lot of time with terms at the end of the year. So the process in itself is designed to meet the needs of the students as we go along, which creates a situation where we have more time for additional terms and additional concepts later.

Robert J. Marzano: So when you put all six steps together, you have a way of introducing words in a nonthreatening way, allowing the students to process those words in multiple modalities, multiple times, and then finally have fun with the words.

—An excerpt from A Six-Step Process for Teaching Vocabulary, an ASCD video-based professional development program.