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 ...

Knowing whether or not a child is developmentally on track for literacy is hugely important. Study after study supports early intervention when children are not on track and a critical juncture is ...

Sitting next to her mother while at the park, Judie ElAttar beamed. The second-grader at David Fairchild Elementary School was wearing a blue shirt with “Loves to spell” displayed boldly, two black ...

The Champion City Spelling Bee is about more than words. It’s about fun. “You may not think a spelling bee would be fun to watch, but we had some very vibrant personalities,” said Sophia Lopez, event ...

Beverly-Center held its annual school spelling bee Wednesday, December 7. Students in grades one through six competed, with the winners in grades five and six moving on to represent Beverly-Center at ...

If you really want a nice challenge, you should take a look at these hardest words to spell for 6th graders. I won my school’s spelling bee in seventh grade, so I know a thing or two about how to ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The very best of the spellers in first and second grade at Luther Jones Elementary School emerged as the school's spelling bee winners. Aliyah Pascual claimed the second grade ...

What Word Tripped You Up At Your Spelling Bee?Speller No. 110, Kavya Shivashankar, won the 2009 National Spelling Bee. But that means almost 300 other spellers missed a word. Writer Nina Shen Rastogi ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Isaac Brogan, left, ...