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 ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Benjamin Bruch sits at the kitchen table with his daughter, Ellen, picking words at random from a stack of paper he holds with two hands. “Ellen, the word is seize, as in ...

Teachers often report the dilemma of children scoring 100 percent correct on a Friday spelling test but misspelling the same words the following week in their writing. Cognitive psychology has given ...