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 ...

The use of spell-check for Oregon's 7th grade and high school online writing assessment has spurred a welcome dialogue in our state regarding what is important for our kids to know and be able to do ...

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 ...

Learning how to write takes time, whether it is holding your pen properly or ensuring all the letters are on the same ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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.