As many educators and researchers will attest, there’s no exact science to choosing vocabulary words—no inherent reason the word “detest” is more important to teach than “despise,” or why “compassion” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learn the most frequently used English words! This video breaks down the top 100 words, covering verbs, nouns, and adjectives to boost your vocabulary. New Connecticut law bans these marriages Miley ...

If the answer is yes, you’re not alone, judging by the growing popularity of word games, word quizzes, websites devoted to word definitions and origins–and word-related articles on this website. The ...

Young children whose parents read them five books a day enter kindergarten having heard about 1.4 million more words than kids who were never read to, a new study found. This 'million word gap' could ...

Estonian vocabulary for color, taste and smell is strikingly similar to that of German in both form and meaning, a Tallinn ...