Dear Teacher: My daughter is in first grade. The spelling words that she is being tested on appear to be at a very high level. Whatever happened to having children spell words like “the,” “dog,” “that ...

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 ...

Forget the dreaded Friday spelling test, and don't count on spell check to do the job. For too long, spelling has been ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor's Note: This article was originally published at The Conversation. Read the original here. A couple of years ago, early one morning, I received an SMS advising “resadents to stay indoors ...

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 ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...