Teacher question: What’s the best way to teach and have students master vocabulary? Shanahan response: My original reaction to this question was not exactly what I’d label a model of helpfulness. The question was asked by someone new to my blog and I started to send him a note telling him I’d written about that several times already and if he searched my website, he’d find an answer to his question. But I had second thoughts and decided to be a bit more accommodating. I still didn’t intend to write a blog entry. I figured it would be generous to identify...