Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some of the trickiest words to spell are "February", "definitely" and "mischievous", according to tests carried out by nearly a ...

The recent article by Chronicle reporter Ericka Mellon about how schools are dropping weekly spelling tests in favor of teaching methods that focus less on memorization and more on understanding why ...

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No longer do students bring home that list of words every Monday to memorize for a test Friday as did their parents, grandparents and even older brothers and sisters. The words are still spelled the ...

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Texas will once again be well represented at the Scripps National Spelling Bee that is returning after the tournament was canceled last year. Two area students are heading to Florida as finalists: ...

Forget the dreaded Friday spelling test, and don't count on spell check to do the job. For too long, spelling has been treated as rote memorization or dismissed as unnecessary in an age of autocorrect ...

Some of the trickiest words to spell are "February", "definitely" and "mischievous", according to tests carried out by nearly a million children. New research revealed that spelling mistakes in ...