TOAST is a vocabulary study system that can be used from early elementary grades through highschool as a good method for getting students actively involved in the study of words.
T: Test. Students self-test to determine which vocabulary terms they cannot spell, define, or use in sentences.
O: Organize. Students organize these words into semantically related groups; arrange words into categories by structure or function, such as words that sound alike or are the same part of speech; and categorize words as somewhat familiar or completely unfamiliar.
A: Anchor. Students "anchor" the words in memory by using a keyboard method (assigning a picture and a caption to a vocabulary term), tape-recording definitions, creating mnemonic devices, or mixing the words on cards and ordering them from difficult to easy.
S: Say. Students review the words by calling out the spellings, definitions, and uses in sentences to another student. The first review session begins 5 to 10 minutes after initial study and is followed at intervals by several more.
T: Test. Immediatley after each review, students self-administer a posttest in which they spell, define, and use in context all the vocabukary terms with which they originally had difficulty. the response mode may be oral, written, or silent thought.
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