More than one‐third of the world's population uses a writing system that includes both uppercase and lowercase letter forms.

Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...

When I pulled out a copy of "The Lost Words," my seven-year-old son stared in amazement. The book is huge, nearly as tall as his torso, and when I opened it up, it spread across both of our laps. He ...

In a desperate parenting moment after dinner, I told my six-year-old, who was mid-meltdown, to “use your words!” He had just started yelling and hitting his eight-year-old sister because she wasn’t ...

Parenting experts have written numerous books—countless pages—on best practices for raising children. However, therapists share that simple, one to three-word phrases can make all the difference in a ...

Opened in 2007, the Worlds of Words Center of Global Literacies and Literature is a research library and resource center at UA’s College of Education. Most visibly, it is a collection of 40,000 books.

Discussing body parts and bodily autonomy with young children is an essential conversation that can shape their future ...