Suggests that word bridges--across which meaning is communicated--become more intricate both as the individual's language develops and as the world around him changes and grows. (TO)

Suggests several variations of a game designed to enhance students' active and passive vocabularies. (TO)

Discusses what vocabulary development is all about, not how to develop vocabulary. (TO)

Suggests several ways to encourage students' awareness and use in writing of the variant meanings of words. (TO)

Presents examples of classroom activities designed to improve reading through improved vocabulary. (RB)

Educational Leadership/Research Supplement, v3, n2, December 1969. Measurement of responses to a vocabulary scale suggests that usual verbal classroom presentations may be beyond the grasp of some pupils due to their level of conceptual ability. (AP/Author)

Two methods for capturing the letter naming skills of kindergarteners were compared in power to predict Gates-McGinitie vocabulary and comprehension one year later. Both methods turned out essentially the same correlation coefficients. (Author)

The author reviews a selection of books that can be used to enrich a child's language in order to influence his acquisition of reading and writing skills. (CD)

Fourth-grade students learned a list of relatively complex English vocabulary words in two experiments. In both experiments, a keyword contextual method proved effective for enhancing children's acquisition of new vocabulary words. (Author/BW)

Written language development of learning disabled (LD) and non-LD students at four age levels (9 through 15) was examined on measures of syntax and vocabulary. Seemingly conflicting evidence on syntactic development may have reflected the nature of the measure used. LD students' writing showed a smaller variety of word types. (CL)

Demonstrates that intensive direct instruction followed by practice can help slower students learn sight vocabulary. (FL)

A study examined whether a single subject methodology that provided for alternate exposure to contexts and definitions would provide results similar to an earlier study in which one group studied contexts while a second group studied definitions. (HOD)