As you play Vocabulary.com, do you ever wonder why you're being asked questions on words before you have a chance to try to learn them on your own? It's because the experience of test-taking actually helps you learn, and speeds the rate at which you do so.Continue reading...
Providence, RI won the Bloomberg Philanthropies' Mayors Challenge competition for ideas to improve city life, with an innovative proposal for vocabulary intervention in families raising children in poverty.Continue reading...
Career educator and senior curriculum specialist at the Northwest Evaluation Association John Wood writes about the Common Core and vocabulary instruction: "Schools must continue to address vocabulary development across the grades through high school...through an intentional program that has vocabulary development as one of the instructional goals."Continue reading...
Writing in The Telegraph recently, a teacher of English as a foreign language described strategies for mastering ESL vocabulary. Here, we digest some of her strategies that work equally well for learning the vocabulary of your native tongue.Continue reading...
Last week, the website Science Daily reported on a recent study that suggested reading curricula in kindergarten classrooms is deficient. Beyond the simple dearth of words taught, the study criticized kindergarten curricula word complexity and lack of review, both crucial aspects of vocabulary learning at any age, and worth looking at more closely.Continue reading...