Tom Hobson’s new book Fun with Biblical Words (Wipf and Stock, 2024) puts Bible readers in the driver’s seat by giving them what they need to know about more than sixty Bible words to help ...

Young children whose parents read them five books a day enter kindergarten having heard about 1.4 million more words than kids who were never read to, a new study found. This 'million word gap ...

If picture book publishers would use larger and simpler fonts, then children would be more likely to also focus on the words, helping them to become independent readers, he said. In the study, Massaro ...

The million-word gap study presents key elements in explaining vocabulary and reading development differences. Even children who are read only one book a day will hear about 290,000 more words by age ...