A new effort shows promising signs that carefully crafted text messages to family members can help young children learn new vocabulary words they are seeing in the classroom.

Results imply that students' reading of science text, and knowledge of the vocabulary used in that text, can be improved with direct instruction. The Learning Disability Quarterly publishes ...

Daesang Kim, David A. Gilman, Effects of Text, Audio, and Graphic Aids in Multimedia Instruction for Vocabulary Learning, Educational Technology & Society, Vol. 11, No. 3 (July 2008), pp. 114-126 ...