Making more spelling mistakes lately may be more than fatigue or distraction. Research in early stages of dementia, ...

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 ...

New measures to encourage a love for writing while continuing to teach children to spell are being adopted by Elementary District 62. District 62, like many schools, followed a previous trend in ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- How might you drag a good writer's work down to the level of a lesser scribe? Try the spell-check button. A study at the University of Pittsburgh indicates spell-check software may ...

Their writing is judged on six traits, including organization and sentence fluency. Conventions—which includes spelling, capitalization, and similar features that spell check can detect and fix—is the ...

Amid the launch of the Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee, research reveals how gender roles impact girls’ and boys’ spelling skills. Analysis of more than 150,000 writing samples from boys and girls in ...

You’re reading this article. Should it change your opinion of the piece’s quality to know that its author was white, black, or of another race? No, if you’re evaluating it on its merits. Yet a new ...

Do you have to be good at spelling to be a good writer? Not necessarily, at least not in Oregon public schools. As middle and high school kids begin taking state writing tests next month, they'll have ...