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 ...

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 ...

In 2010, I began my teaching career as a high school English teacher. After seven years in the classroom teaching middle and high school students, I transitioned into instructional technology, where I ...

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 ...

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Word of the Day for School Assembly: Adding a "Word of the Day" to school assemblies is a fun and helpful way to grow students vocabulary. Here we've shared a list of more than 20 useful words.