There are effective techniques for teaching vocabulary, but it's impossible to explicitly teach all the words kids need to become proficient readers. Vocabulary is key to reading comprehension, and ...

“There just isn’t enough time in the day to teach everything our students need to know.” This is a common refrain among teachers, especially in elementary grades where we are required to teach content ...

Have you ever found yourself racking your brain for the perfect word to capture a feeling or event? The English language has one of the highest word counts in the world, with the Oxford English ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. The sobering matter seems quite peculiar. And though you might ...

This week’s question is: What are the best instructional strategies for vocabulary development? We started-off in Part One with suggestions from Katie Brown, Jane Fung, Marilee Sprenger and Karen ...

Would you like a bigger vocabulary? If you’re like most people, the answer is yes. Then again, if you’re like most people, you don’t have the free time to enroll in a course or work your way through ...

To succeed in school and beyond, children need to build a robust vocabulary. Kids learn a lot from the adults in their lives and there are many ways you can help your child learn new words. We reached ...

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Joe's first real experience with tech came at the tender age of six when he started playing Final Fantasy IV (II on the SNES) on the family's living room console. As a teenager, he cobbled together ...

Trying to convince speakers of English that they need to expand their vocabularies is one of the oldest strategies for selling word books. The very first English dictionary, A Table Alphabeticall, ...