As a new teacher, I gave an enormous vocabulary list at the beginning of each unit. Then I drilled and quizzed the life out of it-- and still found that my students forgot most of it by the end of the year! Now, I always try to introduce vocabulary in context, and in much smaller amounts. I have two main ways to record vocabulary. Most of the time, it's in sets of three (pictured first, below) and the surrounding pages contain stories and input surrounding those phrases. I also have a specific vocabulary section, where I keep little booklets by