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 ...

(bright upbeat music) - Hi friends, welcome back to Teaching in Room 9. Our regions are just classroom. My name is Julia, I'm one of the second grade teachers at The Soulard School. But here for ...

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 ...

The recent article by Chronicle reporter Ericka Mellon about how schools are dropping weekly spelling tests in favor of teaching methods that focus less on memorization and more on understanding why ...

The 84th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee is under way, near Washington, D.C. Linguist Ben Zimmer explains what makes some words difficult to... Spelling Bee Pregame: Why Are Some Words So Hard?

Analysis of more than 530 million spelling attempts by nearly one million children has shown predictable patterns behind common spelling errors. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Star, ...

Forget the dreaded Friday spelling test, and don't count on spell check to do the job. For too long, spelling has been treated as rote memorization or dismissed as unnecessary in an age of autocorrect ...