Joe's first real experience with tech came at the tender age of six when he started playing Final Fantasy IV (II on the SNES) on the family's living room console. As a teenager, he cobbled together ...

To help combat the impact of screen-time creep, the Countdown word supremo has a few suggestions ...

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 ...

Word dueling is a fun and interactive way to boost vocabulary and language skills. The activity involves two or more participants coming up with words based on certain rules or themes. This not only ...

— -- First there was brain training on the Nintendo DS with Brain Age and Big Brain Academy. Now there's vocabulary training with My Word Coach, a new video game that is based on the notion that ...

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 ...

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 ...