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 ...

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 ...

Annals of Dyslexia, Vol. 66, No. 2 (July 2016), pp. 219-234 (16 pages) Three groups of reading-disabled children were found in studies of English, German, and French: a group with a double deficit in ...

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.

A renown cognitive psychologist is touting the importance of spelling for reading achievement. In his highly regarded new book, Raising Kids Who Read [1], cognitive psychologist Dan Willingham says ...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether students with and without hearing loss (HL) differed in their spelling abilities and, specifically, in the underlying linguistic awareness skills ...

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 ...