Forget the dreaded Friday spelling test, and don't count on spell check to do the job. For too long, spelling has been treated as rote memorization or dismissed as unnecessary in an age of autocorrect ...

Parents and teachers often ask: “What’s the best way for my child or student to learn and retain words from the weekly spelling list? How does one get beyond simply memorizing words for a Friday ...

'Believe', 'separate' and 'surprise' are some of the most commonly used words in the English language yet they are commonly misspelt. Why is that? What's so difficult about spelling English words that ...

A boy takes the stage on the set of the Network Ten program, the Great Australian Spelling Bee.(tenplay.com.au) As the students rack their brains to remember words like 'centrifugal' and 'transcendent ...

Thanks to spell check, we are in an era of poor spellers. "People tend to think they don't need to learn how to spell because the computer will do it for them," says Dr. J. Richard Gentry, literary ...

Readin’ and writin’ and ‘rithmetic, the old school thought of— school. My how times have changed! Understanding the progression of education certainly cannot be explained in one little article. But, ...

Parents and teachers often ask: “What’s the best way for my child or student to learn and retain words from the weekly spelling list? How does one get beyond simply memorizing words for a Friday ...