A 5th grade spelling bee sounds simple — until the words actually start coming. What begins with confidence quickly turns into hesitation as the difficulty ramps up. Some words look easy but become ...

BECKLEY — Raleigh County Schools honored its top spellers at its Tuesday Board of Education meeting. The spelling bee season began with a competition in January, advanced to the county level, and ...

Young spellers took the spotlight as Monroe County’s long‑running spelling bee crowned winners from local schools.

Last Thursday, Alex outlasted his brother Ben after the other 16 spellers had been eliminated. As soon as he correctly ...

BASIS Chandler student Esha Marupudi, 14, is moving on to represent Arizona at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in May.

Esha Marupudi, a 14-year-old eighth grader at BASIS Chandler, won the Arizona Spelling Bee on Saturday at Phoenix’s Madison Center for the Arts, successfully defending her title by correctly spelling ...

What are we missing?” A nationwide gap in phonics instruction galvanized the science of reading movement. But as the movement ...

Several years ago I bought a spelling book like I used when I was in the fourth grade. I still occassionally pick it up and ...

Sarv Dharavane, 12, a sixth grade student at Peachtree Middle School in DeKalb County, won the Georgia Association of Educators State Spelling Bee for the third time this past week. The win qualifies ...

To argue that schools are over-teaching phonics is to risk being seen as a naysayer—someone who believes the tide will ...

O NCE THERE WAS a clay pot and it fell and broke. Once there was a man and he too fell.