A strong bilingual vocabulary is one of the greatest gifts you can give your child. If you speak a home language other than ...

Mayfield City Schools have entered into a partnrership with Footsteps2Brilliance, an early literacy program, that will give parents of children up to 5 years old free access to resources that will ...

Working with kindergarteners reminds us how important vocabulary is for reading comprehension. Kids come to school with widely different vocabularies, but adults can help!

Not only does a weak vocabulary lead to poor reading comprehension, so does a lack of knowledge about basic social, economic, political, and scientific realities -- in short, "real-world" knowledge.

Building stamina—the attention span and endurance to read texts for sustained periods—is critical to support reading comprehension.

A richer vocabulary tends to support stronger reading comprehension because children who know more words can more easily make sense of what they read.

If you're ready to start working on reading skills with your toddler, we've got some suggestions for how to teach your young child to read. Learn about their skills at this age, plus find books ...

Related: Back in 2000, the National Reading Panel, a 14-member group working with the Department of Education, identified six techniques for effective reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, ...

The relationship between word frequency and reading vocabulary was investigated, with particular attention to the lognormal model of word frequency distribution and the concept of family frequency.

Working with kindergarteners reminds us how important vocabulary is for reading comprehension. Kids come to school with widely different vocabularies, but adults can help!