Learning to spell is more than just learning by rote, and requires a sophisticated understanding of patterns, symbols and sequences; indeed spelling is mathematical in thought. Teaching your child to ...

This month, I went to school for parent-teacher conferences. My second-grader’s self-evaluation form listed several categories: “I follow directions,” “I understand math,” “I like to read,” and one we ...

Recently I have found myself navigating my days like a nonstop spelling bee. Ever since watching the PBS Kids show Word World and becoming entirely addicted to it, my 3-year-old son has a voracious ...

RICHMOND, Va. - Can you spell “centipede?” That’s the word that helped 4th grade Barack Obama Elementary School student Prince-Albert Hudson, IV become the Richmond Public Schools 2020 Spelling Bee ...

Last week students in Oregon got a heck of a message from their state school board. They no longer need to learn to spell when a computer can do it for them. From now on, seventh-graders and ...

Some words can be more difficult to learn to spell than others. It is important to practise reading and spelling these tricky words so you get them right. Hello, I'm Mr McPartlin and today we're going ...

Forget the dreaded Friday spelling test, and don't count on spell check to do the job. For too long, spelling has been treated as rote memorization or dismissed as unnecessary in an age of autocorrect ...