This week, I went to school for parent-teacher conferences. My second-grader’s self-evaluation form listed several categories ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Epic, the world’s largest digital reading platform for kids, announced today a new partnership with the world-famous Scripps National Spelling Bee to further ...

Writing, spelling, and reading reinforce each other. Spelling helps a child see the patterns in language and understand how words are really put together. By learning spelling, children realize that ...

Spelling jump-starts reading! The fact is, spelling knowledge jump-starts the reading circuitry in every reader of English—even you. First, you match the letters on the page to the neurological ...

Imagine you’re a school administrator. You’ve heard for two decades that spelling books are antique and wasteful spending. You believe that they are the same rote memorization workbook pages of the ...

Reading comprehension seems like it should be easy to define. In simple terms, it’s the ability to understand what one reads. But beneath that simple definition lies a diverse array of component ...

REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. Epic, the world’s largest digital reading platform for kids, announced today a new partnership with the world-famous Scripps National Spelling Bee to further support its two ...

Nearly all students can learn how to read, yet only 35 percent of them are reading proficiently. This widening gap seems insurmountable, but the bottom line is that teachers are the most essential ...

Sam Nystrom lasted 11 rounds and bested 27 other spellers to be crowned the regional spelling bee winner Sunday afternoon. “When I won, I thought, ‘Well, I did not expect this,’” Nystrom, 12, said.