Literacy advocate Maya Smart says parents provide "language nutrition" to kids. See Smart's tips to help ensure kids' success.

In this video, I share a fun, academic-based classroom game I call “Snake.” It’s perfect for keeping young students quiet and ...

Words matter. And when it comes to learning math, they matter more than you might think.

Children naturally pick up language, making it crucial to teach them the distinction between casual and respectful speech.

Are you students prepared to improve your English and impress your teachers? Learning new words gives you mental superpowers that help you comprehend more complicated concepts and communicate more ...

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 ...

A study examining parents' vocabulary and grammar as an influence on children's acquisition of English, finds that the quality of child-directed speech depends on the speaker's language proficiency.

At my town’s public library, one wall of the children’s section displays posters declaring, “Babies need words every day,” encouraging me to sing, talk, and read with my child. On the radio recently, ...

PhD Candidate in the Department of Cognitive Science and ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University Children’s oral vocabulary – their knowledge of the sounds and ...

EdSource · Some school lunches are getting a makeover. Will federal cuts set them back? In “The Pout-Pout Fish” children’s picture book, the author weaves words like “aghast” and “grimace” into a ...

The stronger a child’s vocabulary, the more successful she tends to be in school, and new research shows that the word-building can begin before kids start talking. Child development experts have long ...

U.S. students -- from the richest to the least privileged -- have trouble with words, and they're getting worse. This time, though, it's not just the schools that are failing them. A recent news ...