Revisiting a book repeatedly helps children develop a sophisticated understanding of what emotions look and feel like.

Children hear as much sophisticated information about animals when parents read picture book stories about animals as when they read flashcard-type animal vocabulary books, according to a new study.

A retired language arts teacher living in Rancho Bernardo has written a vocabulary workbook to help middle school students learn new words. Nancy Forderer wrote “Vocabulary Virtuoso,” which was ...

Learning a new language isn’t easy. It took me four years of high school French to be semi-comfortable ordering a croissant in a Parisian cafe. But, keeping a notebook while you’re learning a foreign ...

EdSource · When teens counsel teens: Why peer support programs are growing In “The Pout-Pout Fish” children’s picture book, the author weaves words like “aghast” and “grimace” into a story about a ...

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 ...

This week’s question is: What are the best instructional strategies for vocabulary development? All educators in all subjects have to teach vocabulary. If our students don’t know the meanings of the ...

There's a common assumption that if someone starts learning a language when they are very young, they will quickly become ...

Creators of the world’s most trusted dictionaries, Oxford University Press, have been busy updating their children’s dictionaries and thesauruses, and the brand new books – for both early and middle ...