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 ...

Marilee Sprenger, author of the book, 101 Strategies To Make Academic Vocabulary Stick, agreed to answer a few questions. Marilee Sprenger is an experienced classroom teacher, educational consultant ...

One of the most important abilities to develop in young students is their vocabulary. Having an ample vocabulary is highly beneficial for a student. For example, increasing one’s vocabulary improves ...

STEM education brings benefits to all students, especially multilingual learners (MLs) whose primary language is not English. STEM can help with English language development by allowing students to ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Recreational problem-solving activities such as word searches, crossword puzzles, tic-tac-toe, scrambled words, and word creation represent ...

With students gone for the day, sixth grade teachers Joy Ford and Ryan Rusk sat in a classroom discussing the Latin root temp. After determining that “contemporary” and “temporary” share the root, ...

Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy is a peer-reviewed journal serving those interested in the teaching of reading to adolescents and adults. Each issue offer practical, classroom-tested ideas ...

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