Seven-year-old Alayna Gifford and a few of her classmates were seated in a semicircle on the floor at Waterloo Elementary School. “OK, Alayna, your turn,” said teacher Staphanie Yonowitz, who is ...

Consistently poor spelling can indicate that a child has dyslexia or another related learning challenge. If that's masked by ...

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 ...

Then she uses anchor charts and whole brain teaching to teach bossy-r then practice using magic-e, bossy-r, and syllable rules to decode new words. We practice dissecting words into bossy-r, keeping ...

An age-old staple of elementary school — the weekly spelling test — is disappearing from some classrooms. Causing confusion among parents, a growing number of schools are ditching tradition for a ...