What's the word in District 66? Starting this school year, Westside Schools have launched a targeted effort to build a more consistent, higher level vocabulary among young students.That means in every ...

Analyzing rates of target word acquisition and overall vocabulary development, this study finds that students learning English as a second language pick up general vocabulary more quickly and target ...

Continuing to revise its academic program with a back-to-basics approach, School District 135 has approved a spelling curriculum for 6th grade students and a vocabulary program for 7th and 8th graders ...

Julie Hutcherson didn't sign up to be an English teacher. Usually she's all angles and fractions and complex numbers, but for 30 minutes every day, she gets wordy. Along with every other teacher at ...

An important study from The Elementary School Journal explores vocabulary development at the kindergarten level among English-only students (EOs) and English-language-learning students (ELLs) who ...