Anyone in the annual national spelling bee will get these words right, but plenty of mere mortals definitely don’t. Anyone in the annual national spelling bee will get these words right, but plenty of ...

Chandler acknowledges that little or non-existent spelling instruction puts children with an existing or emerging learning ...

The kids were just too good. The finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee turned into a slog on Thursday, with bee organizers unable to scour Webster's Unabridged dictionary for words challenging ...

You will never train harder for anything than you will train for a spelling bee. I should know, having once been someone who ate, breathed, and slept spelling words for two glorious years. Even now, ...

Well, you can now — since I spelled them correctly. But could you beforehand? If so, you’d better sign up for the National Spelling Bee for Adults and Kids, which will take place on Sunday, March 9, ...

Are spelling tests really necessary? Not in the affluent Solon City Schools in Ohio where fifth graders are learning to spell second-grade level words! What if these were your children? Would you ...

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 ...

Consistently poor spelling can indicate that a child has dyslexia or another related learning challenge. If that's masked by ...

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As the fierce yet fun 95th Scripps National Spelling Bee heads into its final round Thursday, the importance and value of spelling take center stage. Does being an excellent speller correlate with ...

We all enjoy watching the ecstatic contestants pump their little fists with victory at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, going on Thursday in Oxon Hill, Maryland. But we can't appreciate the fleeting ...