SAN BERNARDINO – Henry Reyes thumbed quickly through his new dictionary, the first student to find the word “hospital.” Henry, 8, a student in Sue Stock’s third-grade class at North Verdemont ...

Chinese language learners often rack their minds searching for the right word. By the time they shuffle through a dictionary the moment has passed and conversation has moved on. Chinese student and ...

MARION COUNTY - What makes people successful is being able to read and write," Todd Duffy said Thursday, just before he and Barry Mansfield presented each of the third-graders at Maplewood Elementary ...

Educators cannot stress enough the importance of reading and the development of vocabulary to ensure a child is on the right path to a complete education. While many American schools grapple with ...

The Georgetown Rotary Club has handed out more than 700 dictionaries to Grade 3 students in town over the past year. The books were distributed free to all the Grade 3 students in town as part of the ...

Lecturer in English at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, Dr Paul Tankard, tells the tale of the creation of Samuel Johnson's English Dictionary. Born in 1709, Johnson was a bookseller's ...