Heather Miller, a first grade teacher in Austin, Texas, works with a small group of students in her classroom on reading skills. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers ...

Parents and teachers often use flashcards and picture books to teach young children new words, but a new study suggests that understanding basic words may come from a flash of initial insight more ...

Psychologists have shown that a baby's most likely first words are based upon their visual experience, laying the foundation for a new theory of infant language learning. Indiana University ...

A new study of toddlers has found that the presence of background noise in home or at school can make learning new words more difficult for children. The environments children are in, including how ...

Learning to listen in first grade helps develop cognitive skills. Source: iStock/FatCamera Tens of millions of children around the United States are going back to school. For those starting first ...