Although proficiency in vocabulary has long been recognized as basic to reading
proficiency, there has been a paucity of research on vocabulary teaching and learning over …

Learning new words is foundational to success in school and life. Researchers have known
for years that how many word meanings a student knows is one of the strongest predictors of …

Reading comes easily to some students, but many struggle with some part of this complex
process that requires many areas of the brain to operate together through an intricate …

In the following text of her Dewitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Distinguished Lecture at the 2003
AERA annual meeting, Lisa Delpit argues that educators must look beyond standardized …

" An excellent, important book!" Robert Sylwester Author, A Biological Brain in a Cultural
Classroom." Although there is an enormous amount of information, the simplicity of the …

One of the most challenging problems in the field of education is how best to teach young
children with language disabilities from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds …

Increasingly, educators are recognizing that for children to thrive intellectually they need
socially and emotionally healthy classrooms. Conveniently, this is exactly what parents have …

Human traits tend to fall along normal distributions. The aim of this research was to evaluate
an evidence-based conceptual framework for predicting expected individual differences in …

This study examined the composition of vocabulary and preschoolers' vocabulary learning
in an early literacy program. Fifty-six children with typical achievement, with special needs …

An accumulation of research indicates that many words are learned incidentally through the
independent reading of text, through oral language discussions, and through reading aloud …