How many can you get right? No peeking at a dictionary for this surprisingly tricky 4th grade spelling words quiz. Remember those 4th grade spelling words quizzes we took in elementary school? They ...

English spelling is hard and needs to be taught explicitly, but most American schools fail miserably to teach children to spell. Kids who can't spell often do not read and write with proficiency ...

Fourth grade teacher Joe Dombrowski at Oakland Elementary School in Royal Oak, Mich., had a kick fooling his students with a bizarre spelling test for an early April Fools’ prank on Wednesday.

NEWPORT NEWS — The weekly tradition of spelling tests is gone from elementary classrooms. Newport News Public Schools did away with them this fall in favor of “word study,” which focuses on patterns ...