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 ...

In one sense, the national conversation about what it will take to make sure all children become strong readers has been wildly successful: States are passing legislation supporting evidence-based ...

Analysis of more than 150,000 writing samples from boys and girls in years 3 to 7 has revealed that boys are more likely to write about ‘action-based’ topics such as sports, violence and video games.

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 ...

In putting together this special report on how writing instruction can and should build on the science of reading, Education Week reporters read through dozens of studies and spoke to leading ...

Writing, spelling, and reading reinforce each other. Spelling helps a child see the patterns in language and understand how words are really put together. By learning spelling, children realize that ...

Our brains are actually pretty great at filling in gaps, but that’s a bad thing when you’re scanning for spelling errors. If you want to focus more on each word, you need to put things in reverse. If ...

Note: You'll need the free RealOne Player (www.real.com) to see the video clips below. Spelling tells us what a child knows... Spelling is a visible record of language processing. It is language ...

Imagine you’re a school administrator. You’ve heard for two decades that spelling books are antique and wasteful spending. You believe that they are the same rote memorization workbook pages of the ...