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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

— -- First there was brain training on the Nintendo DS with Brain Age and Big Brain Academy. Now there's vocabulary training with My Word Coach, a new video game that is based on the notion that ...

Guiding students to infer the meaning of a word from a set of images may be more powerful than providing a definition. Vocabulary is crucial to reading comprehension, but it can be hard to ...

Challenge yourself with the ultimate Guess The Word Game! Improve your vocabulary, boost your brainpower, and have fun ...

Marilee Sprenger, author of the book, 101 Strategies To Make Academic Vocabulary Stick, agreed to answer a few questions. Marilee Sprenger is an experienced classroom teacher, educational consultant ...

The world has changed a lot over the past year — and, naturally, so did our vocabulary. Dictionary.com added more than 300 new words and definitions to its latest update to include new terminology and ...