Teaching children how to identify and combine parts of words is an important component of a comprehensive approach to reading ...

One speller at this year's County Spelling Bee couldn't help but laugh when she was asked to spell the word "anxiety." The irony wasn't lost on Friday's audience either, which was full of anxious ...

Find out why teaching English spelling explicitly is essential for literacy and why shortchanging spelling instruction is ...

Every Spelling Bee puzzle is hand-curated with a wide-ranging audience in mind. Is there a word you want to see included in ...

This name is pronounced as "Ladasha", as in "La-dash-a". With new names like these, it's clear the new parents of 2024 are ...

In 1914, A&R Scott chose the name and the unusual spelling by combining the spellings of 'porridge' and 'potage' which is a ...

Does it bother anyone else that the word “subtle” has a silent “b?” Is it ironic that the word subtle means “understated?” The “b” in subtle is, therefore, itself, subtle.

Welcome to The Daily Memphian’s game Word Flower. Known as Polygon in The Times U.K. and then popularized as Spelling Bee by ...

This fun optical illusion tests your ability to focus! The cluster of related words conceals a word. Within 6 seconds, ...

Paris Junior High is brimming with pride as two of its students, Amelia Elliot, a 7th grader, and Arshia Khadka, an 8th ...

Nehem bested last year's grand champion, Centerville Middle School student Dale Winand, by correctly spelling the word "kiloton," meaning a unit of explosive power equivalent to 1,000 tons of TNT.

When Grassy Creek fourth-grader Raian Timur was announced as this year’s Johnson County Spelling Bee winner, he was confused ...