Elementary school children may be harmed by overuse of tech tools for spelling. Literacy experts are calling for change and ...

When a person begins making more spelling mistakes than usual, typos in emails, odd word mixes, or confused sentence sequences, it might seem like simple fatigue or the result of a busy life. But ...

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 ...

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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 often hear people explaining dyslexia in narrower terms that does not do service to the totality and complexity of the problem. Dyslexia is largely framed as a problem with reading. This framing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.