A Georgia State researcher found that spelling-focused interventions improved overall literacy skills, including for students ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Between three and six percent of schoolchildren suffer from an arithmetic-related learning disability. Researchers now show that these children are also more likely to exhibit deficits in reading and ...

Recently I had the opportunity to speak to a large gathering of Texas teachers, administrators, and education academics from across the state at a major state literacy conference. These highly ...

Zaila Avant-garde became the first African American person to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee, the largest spelling bee ...

Starting in kindergarten, if a student reads 20 minutes a day at home, they will hear 1.8 million words per year. They will have read for 851 hours by 6 th grade and on standardized tests, they will ...