Is learning how to properly spell words necessary for children anymore? One professor says no. Sugata Mitra, a professor and acclaimed educational researcher told the British education magazine TES ...

At Lacy Elementary School, kindergarten teacher Michelle Pritchard points her students toward a drawing of a rodent with the letters “a” and “t” above it. The first letter is missing. She asks them ...

This recent meta-analysis examined 59 studies of spelling interventions for students who had, or were at risk for, learning ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

But that approach isn’t how North Carolina schools — and many schools across the nation — were teaching reading for the last few decades. Students work on spelling "near" in Staci Pollock's ...