All computers come with spellcheckers and iPhones autocorrect their users’ texts. But despite those everyday features, formal spelling instruction still pays off, the findings of a new study suggest.

Victoria has just announced all government schools will be required to use phonics to teach reading from next year. This brings it in line with approaches in New South Wales, Queensland and South ...

Correct spelling is not the aim of this game. The goal is to gain flying colours in the new phonics test, which requires each child in year one to read 40 words, half of which are made-up gobbledegook ...

NEWBURYPORT — The Newburyport School Committee explored changes to early childhood education Monday. Emily Russin, literacy coordinator for the district’s pre-K through eighth grades, introduced a new ...

When children are taught to read and write though phonics they have to remember many exceptions, so-called 'sight words'. In addition, the linguist David Crystal estimated that almost half of all ...

Teaching children how to identify and combine parts of words is an important component of a comprehensive approach to reading and spelling instruction, new ACU research shows. The study, led by ACU's ...

Hua-Chen Wang does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

One of the longtime objectives of my Psychology Today education blog is to highlight the importance of spelling-to-read methodology which for decades has been given short shrift due to whole language ...

Nathaniel Swain receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council. Channel Ten’s newly announced show, The Great Australian Spelling Bee, may seem like a great platform for ...

"The Vowel A" teaches viewers about the short and long sounds of the vowel letter A. It explains how the presence of a final 'e' at the end of words changes the sound of A from short to long. Through ...