This activity produced successful results in McKeown and Beck's research: To promote multiple ...

This activity produced successful results in McKeown and Beck's research: To promote multiple experiences with new word meanings, students are rewarded for reporting a word studied in the classroom when they see or hear it outside of school, or they are given points if they use a meaning vocabulary focus word in their own writing.  This activity has been called: 
 
promoting out-of-class extensions
 
using vicarious experiences to increase knowledge of word meanings
 
learning words from oral language encounters
 
providing exposure to multiple meaning words.