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

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 ...

Readin’ and writin’ and ‘rithmetic, the old school thought of— school. My how times have changed! Understanding the progression of education certainly cannot be explained in one little article. But, ...

One of the longtime objectives of my Psychology Today education blog is to highlight the importance of spelling-to-read methodology which for decades has been given short shrift due to whole language ...

In the spelling literature, it’s expected that an elementary student can already spell half of the words in a 20-word research-based spelling list appropriate for the student’s grade level (Gentry, ...

Hello, I'm Mrs. Hudson and we're going to find ways to remember those tricky spellings. There are so many words to spell. How can you remember all those spellings? Hmm, tricky! Luckily I have two top ...