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 ...

Crossplay challenges you to expand your word choices. So how exactly do you do that? By Julia Carpenter Almost every day for the last 24 years, my father and I have traded emails about ...

This week’s question is: What are the best instructional strategies for vocabulary development? We started-off in Part One with suggestions from Katie Brown, Jane Fung, Marilee Sprenger and Karen ...

We’ve taken a break from reviewing elevator pitches for awhile but we’re back with a good one: VocabSushi. The pitch is concise yet detailed and manages to pack in a good amount of content into a ...

To succeed in school and beyond, children need to build a robust vocabulary. Kids learn a lot from the adults in their lives and there are many ways you can help your child learn new words. We reached ...

In 2010, I began my teaching career as a high school English teacher. After seven years in the classroom teaching middle and high school students, I transitioned into instructional technology, where I ...

“There just isn’t enough time in the day to teach everything our students need to know.” This is a common refrain among teachers, especially in elementary grades where we are required to teach content ...

The word of the day is austere, explained through its meaning, usage and examples. It shows how one word can describe plain settings, strict behaviour and minimalist living.