Parents are often their children’s first literacy teachers. They oversee children signing their names on artwork and read storybooks with their kids. Yet not much research has focused on what exactly ...

Splish-splash, boing, bang, thud, sparkle, and pitter-patter are all fun words to say — they also happen to sound exactly like their definition. A study published recently in the Journal of ...

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.

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 ...

This fun activity teaches and reinforces common sight words to build reading fluency. Sight words make up 50 to 75% of all words in early reading materials. These are whole words learned by sight, ...

Homework battles can be transformed into positive learning experiences. Experts suggest creating a consistent, distraction-free environment and keeping sessions short. Parents should act as ...

When I was in elementary school, one of the ways the teachers used to lock in the week’s vocabulary words was to ask us to put as many of them as possible into a story. I found that to be one of ...