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 ...

Spelling lists. Spelling tests. Spelling bees. Adults of a certain age who remember anything about elementary school likely recall spelling as central to their literacy instruction. That’s not ...

Benitez said the researchers create a game simulating different environments: one monolingual and the other bilingual. They ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – Most six year olds are learning how to spell words like “bike” or “feet.” Akash Vukoti successfully spelled “circumspectly” at his local spelling bee in Texas to become the ...

B-I-N-G-O. It's probably one of the first words you learned how to spell -- but what about k-n-a-i-d-e-l? Doesn't have quite the same ring to it. That was the winning word of the Scripps National ...

Knowing how to spell words like guetapens and cymotrichous won’t be enough to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee, now less than 50 days away. In a change to the competition announced this week, the ...

Ariana Diaz is one of 14 Purdue students who are helping 55 Spanish-speaking children in Indiana learn how to spell and read their native language as part "Aprendiendo a Leer," or Learning How to Read ...