According to vocabulary education researchers, "knowing" and "not knowing" doesn't describe how we learn words. Rather, there's a spectrum of knowledge that ranges from "I never saw it before" to "I’ve heard of it, but I don’t know what it means" to "I recognize it in context -- it has something to do with..." to "I know it."Continue reading...
As you speed through the Challenge watching the words you’ve learned accumulate like so many dollars in the savings account of life, do you ever stop and wonder how many words are actually out there?Continue reading...
Ever notice that the more you play the Challenge, the faster you start learning the new words you see and hear in everyday life? Don’t chalk this up to that recent uptick in your coffee consumption. Scientific research on vocabulary building suggests that the more vocabulary you know, the more you learn.Continue reading...