Some parents give up helping their children with spelling long before they get to spelling bee words like "psychagogic" (attractive) or "fewtrils" (things of little value). That may be especially true ...

Seven-year-old Alayna Gifford and a few of her classmates were seated in a semicircle on the floor at Waterloo Elementary School. “OK, Alayna, your turn,” said teacher Staphanie Yonowitz, who is ...

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 ...

No longer do students bring home that list of words every Monday to memorize for a test Friday as did their parents, grandparents and even older brothers and sisters. The words are still spelled the ...

In a recent article for The Telegraph, Sugata Mitra, professor of educational technology at Newcastle University, claimed that in today's technologically-advanced world that there was no place for ...

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 ...

ASKED WHY? THE PENN MANOR SCHOOL DISTRICT RECENTLY ANNOUNCED TRADITION SPELLING TESTS WILL SOON BE A THING OF THE PAST. PROBABLY WHAT A LOT OF US REMEMBER. SO PRETEST PRACTICE THE WORDS ALL WEEK.

Spawned by the marketing divisions of big corporations, reading book companies have convinced some state school boards, superintendents, supervisors, principals, and other decision makers that they ...

As a newbie teacher of Grade 11 English in 1966, I was required to teach spelling. I did this by introducing five new words each day and teaching them in context incrementally Monday through Thursday.