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 ...

We have been exploring the enigma of language—its power in helping us understand one another, and the mischief caused by misinterpretations. Consider again this excerpt of a letter Wilbur Wright sent ...

This week’s question is: What are the best instructional strategies for vocabulary development? All educators in all subjects have to teach vocabulary. If our students don’t know the meanings of the ...

Exclusive: Countdown lexicographer urges families to read, talk and play word games to help language development Susie Dent’s tips and tricks to add muscle to a child’s vocabulary Children’s ...

Alice Sullivan works on the 1970 British Cohort Study which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. Reading for pleasure as a child has been powerfully linked in research to the ...

Margaret Kristin Merga receives funding from the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund and the Collier Foundation. She has also received funding from the Ian Potter ...