Parents and teachers often ask: “What’s the best way for my child or student to learn and retain words from the weekly spelling list? How does one get beyond simply memorizing words for a Friday ...

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — Penn Manor School District will be implementing a new way of teaching students how to spell. Instead of the traditional spelling test where the words are given on Monday and ...

The Scripps National Spelling Bee will kick off on May 28 as 245 spellers descend on National Harbor, Maryland, for four days of competition. Ahead of the event, a word selection panel gathers to ...

How many can you get right? No peeking at a dictionary for this surprisingly tricky 4th grade spelling words quiz. Remember those 4th grade spelling words quizzes we took in elementary school? They ...

A new "encrypted spelling test" on Playbuzz is stumping the internet. The quiz replaces letters with numbers and challenges people to choose the correct spelling of words. There are no trick questions ...

The Oxford English Dictionary estimates there are over 170,000 words in the English language, with an additional 47,000 obsolete words. Only a few other languages reportedly have more words than the ...

Crossword puzzles, hangman and other word games are great fun--and helpful ways to practice spelling skills, build vocabulary and improve your powers of deductive reasoning. Since English words aren’t ...

It’s high time we put the most enduring myths about human behavior to bed, and see the mind—and the world—as it is. Are spelling tests really necessary? Not in the affluent Solon City Schools in Ohio ...

ASKED WHY? THE PENN MANOR SCHOOL DISTRICT RECENTLY ANNOUNCED TRADITION SPELLING TESTS WILL SOON BE A THING OF THE PAST. PROBABLY WHAT A LOT OF US REMEMBER. SO PRETEST PRACTICE THE WORDS ALL WEEK.

Brittany Kasko is a lifestyle production assistant with Fox News Digital.