The Real Christmas will hold its second essay contest for children in grades 3-8 with cash prizes. Winners will be announced at the event on Dec. 7 at ...

Do not be alarmed, this is not going to be a combo spelling and math test. No, it’s throwing around words that, out of the ...

The new curriculum is grounded in research on how kids best learn to read. But it will take teachers time to learn which ...

When I forgot to study for my spelling test in second grade, I prayed to God, and somehow I managed to get most of the words ...

The student organization provides literacy tutoring to local children through the Haas Center, supporting families under ...

Researchers say that handwriting is linked to academic success. Historians, like Morris, worry what is lost if people can’t ...

At some point, usually around 3rd grade ... only grew 2.3 points each year. The researchers also looked at a key measure of decoding ability—how students tackled reading nonsense words.

The introduction of the iMac was a critical turning point for Apple. Here is how the iconic desktop has evolved over two ...

I’ve always taken an inordinate amount of pride in my spelling ... When I was in 10th grade, I had an English teacher named Mrs. Spidell, who told us after she’d suffered a stroke a few years back ...

The grammar-and-spelling bit was about surrendering to an established and easily understood way of doing things that eschewed ...

Wikipedia’s page for the “Longest Word in English” should be pretty straightforward. It might take a while to type out, but you dump in one word, a brief etymology, and then you can move on to the lar ...