Each teacher has a style of teaching that provides the most effective way to help students grasp the desired learning concepts. One point teachers agree on is that teaching vocabulary to children needs to be an active process that engages students in entertaining activities and helps them build a bridge between already known vocabulary and the new vocabulary. This topical bibliography and commentary offers ideas and strategies delineated in recent research to help classroom teachers develop vocabulary skills in young students: Ediger's (1999) and Cudd and Roberts' (1994) paradigms on teaching vocabulary; the VOCABULARY system; visual representation techniques, such as the Concept Wheel, the Semantic Word Map, Webbing, the Concept of Definition, and the Semantic Feature Analysis; games, such as the Vocabulary Connection, using vocabulary packs, cued spelling, storytelling, cooperative learning techniques, story development, Charades, and the Magic Square; and the use of electronic books. Lists 2 Internet resources and 21 references. (NKA)