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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Children across Africa are competing for a spot in the finals of the African Spelling Bee, which will be held in Abuja, Nigeria, in December. We caught up with one hopeful speller at the recent South ...

With novels including War Horse and Private Peaceful to his name, Sir Michael Morpurgo is one of Britain's best loved children's writers. The author, 80, has published dozens of books in a career ...

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 ...