A school with “weaknesses in teaching” where “the majority of pupils, including the more able, make basic spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors” has been put into the highest level of Estyn ...

Teaching spelling and grammar in schools has become "a bit unnecessary" because children can correct errors on their mobile phones, a top academic has claimed. Sugata Mitra, professor of educational ...

For the first two centuries of American education, spelling was the backbone of reading instruction. At a time when teachers had relatively little formal training and few tools besides a blackboard ...

Adults may wince at painful childhood memories of penmanship lessons and spelling tests. A small but growing number of studies, though, suggest that systematically teaching handwriting and spelling ...