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To improve your vocabulary, you'll have to practice hard, dedicating a portion of each day to your studies. It helps if you understand the roots, prefixes and suffixes of words so that when you...

Because approximately 84 percent of English words follows the rules of phonics, it stands to reason that teachers would use phonics rules to teach reading. Phonics emphasizes the relationship...

English pronunciation is difficult because there are so many exceptions to rules. However, the rule for a vowel before silent E is true a lot of the time. Just follow these steps, and you will...

We often spell words the way we say or hear them, as spoken in everyday speech. Though this would generally be considered a reasonable idea, there are some words that have become more and more...

Children, teens and college students alike use biology textbooks. Sometimes reading them is no problem and everything is explained easily. Most textbooks also have bolded words or glossaries that...

The title says it all: how to Speed Read, how to summarize information you've just read, how read efficiently, skimming through text and retain the important points when you're in a hurry. It's a...

The editing process is just as important as the writing process. Simple spelling and grammatical errors can make a great paper a mediocre one. By taking the time to comb over your paper for...

From an early age, children learn to form sentences from simple words composed of all parts of speech. Most of these common words are recognizable to children by sight alone, allowing them to...

Essays can be the bane of students, who struggle to meet the teacher’s expectations and get better grades. But good writing is essential in today’s world when there are so many people competing...

It can be scary for children to be faced with spelling tests at school regularly. At home it can be tedious for them to practice spelling the words over and over again. They would much rather be...

Most English words are based on foreign words, and Latin and Greek in particular. An English word can be made up of three different parts: the root, a prefix and a suffix.

Children who do not read at grade level by the 3rd grade will probably never learn to read at grade level. It's a fact. But there are ways for you to help your child learn to read before they...

Concrete poetry is a visual and audio experience on paper. Letters, punctuation marks and words are creatively arranged to form an image. The viewer instantly recognizes the subject from the shape...

Phonics is used to teach children how to sound out words and to recognize smaller parts of words in order to put larger ones together. Forty years ago, nearly every student who was learning to...

For each of my thematic units in my Kindergarten class I like to make a worksheet that combines our vocabulary words for the unit with math assignments. For the Computer Unit, I will make a Bingo...

I have been teaching science for 21 years and have seen so many students struggle with tests, often getting questions wrong when they knew the answer all along but did not take time to understand...

Students are often fed new lessons every week in a given subject. The process of observing, dictating and memorizing, though effective, can get tedious after a while. Teachers can use learning...

Many people have trouble making certain oral sounds. Speech problems can often be aided by practicing making the target sounds to improve the muscle function of the lips, tongue and jaw and...

Testing begins early for children, sometimes as early as kindergarten. Most, if not all, grade school aged children are given weekly spelling exams to help them increase their vocabulary and...

Phonics is a method taught to elementary school students that teaches them how to read. Originally, learning language was based on memorization. The basic principle of phonics is sounding the word...

English language teachers in middle schools have an array of methods that can promote increased literacy for their students. Success in developing reading and comprehension skills at this level...

A first grade reader is working toward becoming an independent reader who enjoys reading stories, poems and information. A skilled reader in first grade is well on his way to being a good lifetime...

Evan-Moor is the publisher of numerous educational publications used by teachers and parents. The company was established in 1979 and is highly regarded for quality educational materials. It...

Kindergarteners love learning. They want to know words and count everything around them. In their class, they are learning to recognize common words such as “and” and “big.” They are learning to...

Children are usually exposed to native accents at school or during ESL classes. There are many ways to reduce a child's accent at home. Each method involves continuous practice because there is no...

You may not be aware of how intricately tied memorization is to learning how to read. Reading a book seems to require little memorization; as a skilled reader, you can simply sound out the words...

There are several schools of thought on how to effectively teach a child to read. The two most familiar schools of thought are the whole language approach and the phonics approach. There is an...

Learning high frequency words or sight words is vital for becoming a fluent and successful reader. HFW are words that are memorized from sight.

One of the most difficult subjects in early childhood education is spelling. Learning the difficult spelling of difficult words can easily confuse, frustrate and bore children. Even common words,...

Words in the English language can take on multiple meanings based on the context and the intent of the user. Sometimes, these words are homographs, and sometimes they are just words with multiple...

Having studied for a plethora of language tests in my life and having little time to do so, I had to develop an effective yet efficient method to study for my tests. I perfected it over the years,...

Sight words occur with high frequency in the English language and are critical to reading proficiency. They either don't follow phonics rules or can't be sounded out so readers must learn them by...

The most important thing any student can do to improve his/her chances on ANY test and to ensure success at school is to READ…READ…READ! You can support your child as a reader by helping him/her...

As a lifetime critic of watching television this article nearly pains me to write. However, there is a very simple way to improve your child's literacy which requires the touch of a button (or two).

"Frindle" is a book for young people written in 1996 by Andrew Clements. In an act of enterprising rebellion, much to the dismay of his teacher, the main character in the story decides to call a...

Phonics is the written representation of spoken language. Knowledge of phonics allows readers to decode (sound out) words, such as knowing that the word "ship" is pronounced /sh/ /i/ /p/ and not...

Vocabulary is important for reading comprehension and for communication. But memorizing vocabulary words is not an especially engaging activity, so it's not the best way for students to develop...

Fluency is a term used to describe a person's reading ability. Fluency rate is the speed at which a person can read effectively. To measure someone's reading fluency is to measure the speed at...

The periodic table of elements was first created by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869. Mendeleev realized that by arranging the elements such that each had a higher atomic number than the one to its left,...

Fourth grade spelling games can add some fun to a subject that tends to become monotonous. Traditional spelling instruction centers around writing the words or sentences that contain the word and...

Games are a great way to teach kids a foreign language. Many instructional games are expensive and require special software or batteries to work, but you can make effective learning tools for a...

Fifth graders are learning spelling words that are naturally more complex than words taught in lower grades. Some children who had an easy time learning one-syllable words with five or six letters...

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Between 50 percent and 75 percent of student reading material consists of sight words, or high-frequency words. Teachers begin teaching sight words in kindergarten or first grade. There are 220...

Early reading intervention helps preschool children to prepare for reading instruction that begins intensively in today's kindergartens. The National Reading Panel (NRP) issued its findings to the...

Teaching English to children serves many purposes. Properly prepared English lessons teach students how to write down their thoughts in print for effective communication. An English class can also...

Building a vocabulary is important to learning the Spanish language. Students must know commonly-used words in order to form phrases, complete sentences and ask questions. Teachers should organize...

When you study for a test and you need to know what some words mean you have to memorize. There are several things you can do to keep all of the definitions. Keep on reading for more information.

Games can provide a successful way to internalize the meaning of new vocabulary. Vocabulary games provide a high-interest challenge while using the new word and providing the brain with a memory...