Some parents give up helping their children with spelling long before they get to spelling bee words like "psychagogic" (attractive) or "fewtrils" (things of little value). That may be especially ...

Teaching children how to identify and combine parts of words is an important component of a comprehensive approach to reading and spelling instruction, new ACU research shows. The study, led by ...

Associate Pronouncer Brian Sietsema attends a pre-bee meeting of the word panel to finalize the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee words on Sunday, May 28, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill ...

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 ...

In those countries, children become faster readers as they recognize more and more words by sight, Bell says, but they don't need to have an idea of how a word sounds before they can read.

Nor is getting children to write their spelling words out 10 times, even if they have to do it in rainbow colours. Looking, covering, writing and checking does not teach spelling.

Originally, 75 to 90 years ago, teachers did not start writing until children had a spelling vocabulary at about grades three or four, which Cramer said delayed development in spelling and writing.

The Scripps National Spelling Bee has drawn attention after its approved list of study words for third-graders looking to compete in the upcoming spelling competition was shared online. Study ...

Sending a list of words home on Monday to be tested on Friday is not teaching. Nor is getting children to write their spelling words out 10 times, even if they have to do it in rainbow colours.

NEPTUNE - There is an ominous beginning to spelling practice for Brian Young. “Ominous. O-m-i-n-o-u-s. Ominous,” the 12-year-old Neptune resident says. His mom Dawn moves on to tougher words ...