Mastery of reading requires developing its highly interrelated major component skills: decoding, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. These components are discussed separately below, but they work ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. As a progressive educator in New York City for 30 years, I thought I had all the answers. The ...

As many educators and researchers will attest, there’s no exact science to choosing vocabulary words—no inherent reason the word “detest” is more important to teach than “despise,” or why “compassion” ...

This week’s question is: What are the best instructional strategies for vocabulary development? All educators in all subjects have to teach vocabulary. If our students don’t know the meanings of the ...