When we look back at our own vocabulary instruction, we probably remember vocabulary words highlighted in bold in our social studies books, or occasionally built into our language arts lessons in later elementary school.  What we most likely do not recollect is specific vocabulary instruction in preschool or early elementary.  Most of our gains in [...]

Matching games, such as the one on this site, are fun, simple ways of learning the identification of words and pictures.  But they can also have a much higher purpose – – helping those with word retrieval difficulties.  Speech and language pathologists often use matching games in their therapy to help patients with specific word [...]