Many students aren't learning spelling and writing skills in school. Parents can help, but there are limits to what they can do. Especially during remote learning, parents are discovering their kids ...

Making more spelling mistakes lately may be more than fatigue or distraction. Research in early stages of dementia, especially Alzheimer’s disease and semantic memory disorders, shows that writing and ...

The dreaded weekly spelling test is causing serious self-esteem issues for pupils across the country. For what purpose, asks Dan ...

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 ...

We found invented spelling to be joyful, motivational for our students, and wonderful in terms of providing opportunities for scaffolding and systematically teaching almost all important aspects of ...

No longer do students bring home that list of words every Monday to memorize for a test Friday as did their parents, grandparents and even older brothers and sisters. The words are still spelled the ...

In one sense, the national conversation about what it will take to make sure all children become strong readers has been wildly successful: States are passing legislation supporting evidence-based ...

You often hear people explaining dyslexia in narrower terms that does not do service to the totality and complexity of the problem. Dyslexia is largely framed as a problem with reading. This framing ...

Note: You'll need the free RealOne Player (www.real.com) to see the video clips below. Spelling tells us what a child knows... Spelling is a visible record of language processing. It is language ...

When a person begins making more spelling mistakes than usual, typos in emails, odd word mixes, or confused sentence sequences, it might seem like simple fatigue or the result of a busy life. But ...

[Note: In this guest post, two renowned former kindergarten teachers who wrote about the extraordinary literacy successes of children in their classrooms (Feldgus & Cardonick, 1999) show how today’s ...