Chandler acknowledges that little or non-existent spelling instruction puts children with an existing or emerging learning ...

This month, I went to school for parent-teacher conferences. My second-grader’s self-evaluation form listed several categories: “I follow directions,” “I understand math,” “I like to read,” and one we ...

Q: My daughter is only in first grade. The spelling words that she is being tested on appear to be at a very high level. Whatever happened to having children spell words like "the," "dog," "that" and ...

Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...

My third-grader has always been an excellent speller — acing most of the tests — until this year. I'm not sure that his spelling tests are age-appropriate. Ten of the words are given as normal ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. Teachers across California are rushing to learn how to test students on vocabulary, how well they know their letters and the sounds they ...