I've spent the last few years preparing children at the school I teach for the national Spelling Bee which is held every year. And each year I find myself with a group of children facing the same ...

Parents and teachers often ask: “What’s the best way for my child or student to learn and retain words from the weekly spelling list? How does one get beyond simply memorizing words for a Friday ...

Students compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee by spelling words that could make one’s head spin (“weissnichtwo” and “cabotinage,” to name a couple). But it doesn’t take championship level ...

Some words can be more difficult to learn to spell than others. It is important to practise reading and spelling these tricky words so you get them right. Hello, I'm Mr McPartlin and today we're going ...

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 ...

Mr. Bailly, who won the competition in 1980, tries to make eye contact with the speller and humanize the moment. By Remy Tumin In the days leading up to the Scripps National Spelling Bee, competitors ...

Nathaniel Swain receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council. Channel Ten’s newly announced show, The Great Australian Spelling Bee, may seem like a great platform for ...

It took 11 rounds and 111 words to find one champion. Simran Sanders, a sixth grader from Jamesville-DeWitt Middle School, smiled from ear to ear as she correctly spelled her final word: “plutonomy,” ...