SEATTLE — Did you ever enter your school spelling bee? How did you do? Well 8th grader Claire Jung from Bellevue is a champion speller and it runs in the family. She's following her sister Amy's ...
English spelling is hard and needs to be taught explicitly, but most American schools fail miserably to teach children to spell. Kids who can't spell often do not read and write with proficiency ...
Are spelling tests really necessary? Not in the affluent Solon City Schools in Ohio where fifth graders are learning to spell second-grade level words! What if these were your children? Would you ...