Vocabulary

Express News Service “You don’t care for things just because they share the same country, religion, or politics. Life itself is kinship.” Delhi-based filmmaker Shaunak Sen’s documentary All That Breathes ends on these…

Each Wednesday we shine a spotlight on five student activities that support a broad range of learners. In this week’s roundup of accessible activities, we invite students to learn how to illustrate their feelings, reflect on their…

“Of all the factors that transform how we communicate, none are so powerful as young people, who have always steered language,” writes book critic Parul Sehgal.Our February Vocabulary Challenge invites middle and high school students to…

Each Wednesday we shine a spotlight on five student activities that support a broad range of learners. In this week’s roundup of accessible activities, we invite students to explore the world of New York City’s food carts, share about a…

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea The key to improving young children’s vocabulary and math skills may lie in changing their parents’ beliefs. We describe these findings in an article…

Note: Winners of the November Vocabulary Challenge are announced at the bottom of this post.When you hear the words jostle, replenish and debris, does a story come to mind?We want to read 50-word stories in which students incorporate some…

“It wasn’t a helicopter. And it wasn’t an airplane. It was a _____ between the two, with a curved hull, two small wings, and eight spinning rotors lined up across its nose and tail.”Which one of these words — breakdown, chaos, cross or…

Reading, writing and math are often thought of as subjects that children learn in school. But as a psychologist who researches how families can help support learning at home, I have found that children can also learn those skills…

Note: The winners of the September Vocabulary Challenge have been announced.Fervid, hasten, enclave, meander: What stories could these words tell? Our story-writing challenge is back for a second school year. Middle and high school students…

Jewellery designer Farah Khan Ali addressed the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in a new tweet and gave them a crash course in millennial lingo. This comes after the agency flagged Aryan Khan’s WhatsApp message to Arbaaz Merchant - ‘let’s…