This recent meta-analysis examined 59 studies of spelling interventions for students who had, or were at risk for, learning ...

Encouraging kindergartners’ attempts to spell unknown words on their own can help them become better readers, according to a recent study by two Canadian researchers. Gene Ouellette, an associate ...

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 ...

At Lacy Elementary School, kindergarten teacher Michelle Pritchard points her students toward a drawing of a rodent with the letters “a” and “t” above it. The first letter is missing. She asks them ...

Dual-route theory, which emphasizes the importance of lexical and nonlexical routes, makes specific predictions about the kinds of strategies that young students might adopt when attempting to ...

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The event marks the culmination of a province-wide literacy campaign aimed at boosting reading proficiency among young people ...

Shelve the fad methods. There’s one tried-and-true way, and it works for children of all races and classes. By John McWhorter Opinion Writer It was great to see Zaila Avant-garde become the first ...

The reading skills of children with reading and spelling difficulties (RSD) lag far behind the age level in the first two school years, despite special education received from special education ...