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 ...

Texas will once again be well represented at the Scripps National Spelling Bee that is returning after the tournament was canceled last year. Two area students are heading to Florida as finalists: ...

An age-old staple of elementary school — the weekly spelling test — is disappearing from some classrooms. Causing confusion among parents, a growing number of schools are ditching tradition for a ...

Analysis of more than 530 million spelling attempts by nearly one million children has shown predictable patterns behind common spelling errors.

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...