Peggy A. Goldstein, Kathleen M. Randolph, Preschool Through Grade 1, YC Young Children, Vol. 72, No. 1, Social and Emotional Development in Early Childhood (March ...

The upshot: 1- and 2-year-olds who were frequently read to had bigger vocabularies than their peers, while vocabulary size shrank with a rising level of screen time among 2-year-olds.

Vocabulary is crucial to reading comprehension, but it can be hard to teach—especially if the words are abstract. A promising new approach uses pictures that prompt students to infer a word’s ...

Many teachers give little or no classroom attention to vocabulary, assuming students will learn words incidentally. Although research demonstrates that vocabulary can be acquired indirectly through ...