Are you METICULOUS About Your Vocabulary?

How does a student freeze the word METICULOUS into their memory to make them a better student?

And what can you do to make that happen?

These are the goals of The Vocabulary Project, begun in a classroom at IS 84 in the South Bronx in 1972.

I was only a few months out of college and hired to teach Spanish to kids in middle school.

There was one problem.

I didn't know a word of Spanish.

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I found that kids would learn words if they had a frame of reference.

That frame of reference was the pictures they could image in their mind and not the boredom of the staid dictionary.

And so it began.

METICULOUS was seen by many as a surgeon, precise in their work and the COSUMMATE professional in their field.

Words multiplied as the pictures began with a single word and grew to thousands.

Soon, thousands of students were asking me about my vocabulary formula.

Then, the Internet extenedde the playing field with the widest net yet.

And now with The Vocabulary Project, we not only have a challenge, we have a blueprint.

And we are asking for your help.