Spring Issue of American Educator
Focuses on Early Childhood Vocabulary

The entire Spring 2003 issue of American Educator (available free online) was devoted to how infants and primary grade students acquire language, those that do, those that don't, and why. Research articles include:

• Poor children's Fourth-Grade Slump by Chall and Jacobs
• Words Are Learned Incrementally Over Multiple Exposures by Stahl
• Oral Comprehension Setgs the Ceiling on Reading Comprehension by Biemiller
• Reading Comprehension Requires Knowledge — of Words and the World by Hirsch
• The 30 Million Word Gap by Age 3 by Hart and Risely
• Basal Readers: The Lost Opportunity To Build the Knowledge that Propels Comprehension by Walsh
• Filling the Great Void: Bringing Nonfiction into the Early-Grades by Duke, Armistead, and Rober