There are effective techniques for teaching vocabulary, but it's impossible to explicitly teach all the words kids need to become proficient readers. Vocabulary is key to reading comprehension, and ...

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At my town’s public library, one wall of the children’s section displays posters declaring, “Babies need words every day,” encouraging me to sing, talk, and read with my child. On the radio recently, ...

Formal childcare gave pre-schoolers’ vocabulary a boost during the first year of the pandemic, according to new research. Young children could produce an average of 29 more words for each day they ...

Will stuffed animals and mini robots with built-in AI chatbots help or hinder children's language development?

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A new exhibit called Kids' Town Park aims to help kids build their reading and literacy skills. The exhibit, which lives inside Kids' Town at the Cincinnati Museum Center, builds ...

Parents in bilingual and multilingual families can wrestle with when and how to expose infants and toddlers to words in ...

• University of Freiburg study on vocabulary acquisition uses novel game-based design • Study results: Children of primary school age can benefit from long-term experience with multiple accents when ...

Word learning in children represents a fundamental aspect of cognitive development and language acquisition. This area of research explores how young learners overcome the ambiguous nature of their ...

A speaker at a recent school board meeting claimed the vocabulary of the average American grade school student was 25,000 words in 1945 and about 10,000 today. This is pretty disturbing if true. What ...