Is learning how to properly spell words necessary for children anymore? One professor says no. Sugata Mitra, a professor and acclaimed educational researcher told the British education magazine TES ...

Want a spelling be champion in your family? Then use these tips to help your child learn to spell with the best of them. There is a certain electric magic that comes with the National Spelling Bee. It ...

She’s checking to make sure the students are reading the word and not just using context clues to guess. That’s critical to making sure students can begin to read fluently; they’ll always run into ...

Positioned as showdowns, smack-downs or friendly competitions, spelling bees have a long and storied past in the United States. The earliest spelling contest on record dates back to 1808 and was ...

Encouraging kindergartners’ attempts to spell unknown words on their own can help them become better readers, according to a recent study by two Canadian researchers. Gene Ouellette, an associate ...

Readin’ and writin’ and ‘rithmetic, the old school thought of— school. My how times have changed! Understanding the progression of education certainly cannot be explained in one little article. But, ...

Knowing how to spell words like guetapens and cymotrichous won’t be enough to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee, now less than 50 days away. In a change to the competition announced this week, the ...

Reading instruction in America seems to have lost sight of the crucial role of teaching English spelling for reading and writing. Here are four reasons why the brain needs spelling: 1. English ...

For the first two centuries of American education, spelling was the backbone of reading instruction. At a time when teachers had relatively little formal training and few tools besides a blackboard ...