Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Happy female teacher talking to schoolgirl while writing on blackboard in the classroom. (Getty Images) This story was originally ...

Dyslexia is a learning difficulty which affects the ability to adopt the automatic reflexes needed to read and write. Several studies have sought to identify the source of the problems encountered by ...

Writing, spelling, and reading reinforce each other. Spelling helps a child see the patterns in language and understand how words are really put together. By learning spelling, children realize that ...

New measures to encourage a love for writing while continuing to teach children to spell are being adopted by Elementary District 62. District 62, like many schools, followed a previous trend in ...

Evaluating children's writing can be discouraging. Often it is full of incomplete thoughts, misspellings, erasures. Looking at it from our adult perspective, we tend to see only what is wrong, failing ...

A decision by the Oregon Department of Education to let students use a computer spell-check feature when taking an online version of the state’s writing exam this year has raised some concerns among ...