Parents can fight this effect by using screens to communicate with loved ones, or watching videos or shows side-by-side with their kids, SMU professor Sarah Kucker said.

There are effective techniques for teaching vocabulary, but it's impossible to explicitly teach all the words kids need to become proficient readers. Vocabulary is key to reading comprehension, and ...

Crossplay challenges you to expand your word choices. So how exactly do you do that? By Julia Carpenter Almost every day for the last 24 years, my father and I have traded emails about ...

In a survey of over 460 caregivers of children ages 17-30 months about word use and video consumption, Southern Methodist ...

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 ...

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 ...

To succeed in school and beyond, children need to build a robust vocabulary. Kids learn a lot from the adults in their lives and there are many ways you can help your child learn new words. We reached ...

Math vocabulary alone isn’t a silver bullet—but research shows it’s linked to stronger academic achievement when paired with expert teaching practices.

Do you want a bigger vocabulary? For most entrepreneurs and business leaders, the answer is yes. It’s embarrassing to admit that you don’t understand a word someone else has used. Not admitting it can ...