Creators of the world’s most trusted dictionaries, Oxford University Press, have been busy updating their children’s dictionaries and thesauruses, and the brand new books – for both early and middle ...

Crossplay challenges you to expand your word choices. So how exactly do you do that? By Julia Carpenter Almost every day for the last 24 years, my father and I have traded emails about ...

Looking for simple, no prep MLK Day worksheets that kids will actually complete? These Martin Luther King Jr worksheets include a word search and a word jumble focused on key vocabulary from Dr.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump on Wednesday tried to explain the Republican Party’s steep election losses this week in part on a failure ...

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.

Nine spellers will compete Thursday night for the championship in the 100th Scripps National Spelling Bee. Esha Marupudi of Arizona, 13, is one of the spellers going for the Scripps Cup. "Now that I'm ...

The Bee continues with the final rounds on Thursday in National Harbor, Maryland. The family of Hannah Kuo, 12, of San Bernardino County, cheers after she correctly spells her word in the semifinals ...

One week before Faizan Zaki, 13, would don a numbered name tag and ascend the small staircase that leads to the biggest spelling bee stage in the country, he sat on his couch, propped open his ...

Appleton sixth grader Jacob Martonito was eliminated from the National Spelling Bee after missing a vocabulary question. New Berlin seventh grader Ethan Robert advanced to the quarterfinals after ...

Three Bay Area middle-schoolers are among the 243 competitors at this year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee, which started Tuesday in a Washington, D.C., suburb. The field of contestants, ages 8 to 14, ...

Shijay Sivakumar, the middle school spelling whiz who made the Scripps National Spelling Bee, is now in high school and placed third in the state UIL Spelling and Vocabulary contest in Austin earlier ...