Imagine you’re a school administrator. You’ve heard for two decades that spelling books are antique and wasteful spending. You believe that they are the same rote memorization workbook pages of the ...

Faizan Zaki, age 13, spelled the word “eclaircissement” and collapsed on the floor in victory as confetti showered him at the 100th Scripps National Spelling Bee last week. The annual competition took ...

The secret to success at the Scripps National Spelling Bee presented by Kindle may not only involve a mind made for memorization. Two previous champions say burying themselves in their favorite books, ...

North Carolina is one of several states that have passed legislation in recent years to align classroom reading instruction ...

In a world dominated by autocorrect and communication by emoji, a sacred annual gathering of linguistic student phenoms persists. These word whizzes have advanced from regional competitions to ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Epic, the world’s largest digital reading platform for kids, announced today a new partnership with the world-famous Scripps National Spelling Bee to further ...

Officials say the Kentucky Department of Education’s (KDE) Kentucky Reading Academies have rapidly advanced literacy outcomes for early learners since the program began three years ago, according to a ...

Hailey Levin has known for years that her daughter is dyslexic. But experiencing for the first time what it might be like for ...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether students with and without hearing loss (HL) differed in their spelling abilities and, specifically, in the underlying linguistic awareness skills ...

Spelling jump-starts reading! The fact is, spelling knowledge jump-starts the reading circuitry in every reader of English—even you. First, you match the letters on the page to the neurological ...