Think about all the ways you promote content vocabulary in your classroom. Got that bulletin board? Got that word wall? Got a few posters with pictures and words around your classroom? Do students ...

Nation's Report Card finds that U.S. kids' vocabulary skills need improvement Reading a broad variety of topics can help improve vocabulary Findings from a new federal study suggest that U.S.

The NAEP study looks at 4th, 8th, and 12th grade vocabulary performance between 2009 and 2013. Fourth and 8th graders inched up a point on the 500-point scale between 2011 and 2013, but 12th graders, ...

Improving your vocabulary skills is not that difficult if you decide to put in the hard work and stay focused. It is important for candidates appearing for competitive exams to polish their language ...

Shared reading between parents and very young children, including infants, is associated with stronger vocabulary skills for nearly all children by age 3, say physicians at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson ...

A new test has confirmed the link between vocabulary and reading comprehension and created a systematic way to assess students’ grasp of word meaning, according to new data released Thursday by the ...

Spanish Lake Primary School second-grade teacher Kimberly Houdashelt’s Write Right! grant project helped her students practice language skills, expand vocabulary and improve spelling and writing. In ...

Good news for parents who read with their infant- and toddler-aged children: It’s making a big difference. In a study published last month in The Journal of Pediatrics, researchers out of Rutgers ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Palm Beach County student and dozens of other kids in our area are getting a boost in their schoolwork while also volunteering to improve the lives of some furry friends. The ...