BBR ch 5 - Strategies!

I read BBR's chapter on reading strategies.  The chapter outlined numerous ways to help students learn vocabulary with the idea that students are also learning reading strategies.  As I was reading I noted a number of reading strategies that could be applied to mathematics, however as the chapter moved on, the strategies seemed to peter out.  They became to complicated to cover within the timeframe of a class, namely my algebra 2 class that is taught in a traditional way.  Then I started thinking about my algebra 1 class and how I would like to be able to split the low flying students and give them more specialized instruction.  It would be great using some of these strategies with these students.  More specifically, I really liked the idea of a personal glossary.  Students can add to it as they need to, and come to me later for help defining words they're struggling with.  Another strategy I liked was the verbal/visual word association diagrams.  I liked how it used a more visual way to create a personal glossary for the words that students are struggling with.  Along with being visual, I like how it tries to build on what students already know - very constructivist!  Further, I like this one best because it let's students quickly refer to their glossary without having to get bogged down with practice sentences.  I forces the student to keep it short, sweet, and to the point.