Book clubs and language lessons are two great ways to combine reading new words and sharing them with others, Prof. Wright said. So is playing social word games. For example, expanding your vocabulary ...

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To enlist parents in their children’s education, schools are increasingly sending text messages home. There’s evidence to suggest parents appreciate the trend. But can such an approach actually help ...

Guiding students to infer the meaning of a word from a set of images may be more powerful than providing a definition. Vocabulary is crucial to reading comprehension, but it can be hard to ...

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