Each Friday, when I was in school, meant a spelling test from a book called “Word Wealth.” Usually, it was 15 words that we had to master. The teacher would select 10 words that we needed to spell ...

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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Teachers often report the dilemma of children scoring 100 percent correct on a Friday spelling test but misspelling the same words the following week in their writing. Cognitive psychology has given ...

Have you ever wondered why some people are just bad spellers? Is there something wrong with the way they process language? Are they rushing and careless? Do they just hate rules? It turns out that ...

There are some words in English that are very tricky to spell, especially if English is not your mother tongue. For years, words like ‘through’, ‘thorough’, and ‘though’ have been causing headaches ...

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