The best young spellers in the English language are set to compete at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. The first bee was held in 1925, when The ...

From the first winning word (gladiolus) to the use of fast-paced spell-offs, the Scripps National Spelling Bee has endured for 100 years. By Isabela Espadas Barros Leal Frank Neuhauser had already ...

Spelling lists. Spelling tests. Spelling bees. Adults of a certain age who remember anything about elementary school likely recall spelling as central to their literacy instruction. That’s not ...

Tear in eye your dress you’ll tear. So shall I! Oh, hear my prayer, Pray, console your loving poet, Make my coat look new, dear, sew it? Just compare heart, beard and heard, Dies and diet, lord and ...

Chandler acknowledges that little or non-existent spelling instruction puts children with an existing or emerging learning ...

Harini Logan, 14, of San Antonio, won the competition’s first ever spell-off, after being reinstated earlier in the final round. Maria Cramer Harini Logan, 14, with her family after winning the 2022 ...