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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You don't have to be a good speller to be a good writer. That's the message the Oregon Department of Education is sending its students. On Wednesday, students across the state will start taking their ...

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.