A meta-analysis of 21 instructional treatments aimed at enhancing the skill of deliberately deriving word meaning from context during reading shows a medium effect size of 0.43 standard deviation ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the context clue instruction program to infer meaning from context as a way to enhance reading comprehension. Participants were fifth-grade ...

Ever had that moment when someone uses a word that you have kinda heard before, but you are too deep into the conversation (or too proud) to ask what it means? So you just smile, nod, and try to piece ...

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 ...

Not a school day goes by that Laurie Hahn Ganser doesn’t use something she’s learned in a professional development program designed to help regular classroom teachers reach English-language learners.