Explore research on handwriting automaticity and sentence construction, plus strategies to improve writing instruction across grades K–3.

Evaluating children's writing can be discouraging. Often it is full of incomplete thoughts, misspellings, erasures. Looking at it from our adult perspective, we tend to see only what is wrong, failing ...

Dyslexia is a reading disorder that affects the ability to adopt the automatic reflexes needed to read and write. Several studies have sought to identify the source of the problems experienced by ...

Spelling bees are a thing of the past in Spokane schools. As are traditional spelling tests. Under new curriculum adopted by Spokane Public Schools this year for grades two through six, students are ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- How might you drag a good writer's work down to the level of a lesser scribe? Try the spell-check button. A study at the University of Pittsburgh indicates spell-check software may ...

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A decision by the Oregon Department of Education to let students use a computer spell-check feature when taking an online version of the state’s writing exam this year has raised some concerns among ...

When a person begins making more spelling mistakes than usual, typos in emails, odd word mixes, or confused sentence sequences, it might seem like simple fatigue or the result of a busy life. But ...

Dyslexia is a learning difficulty which affects the ability to adopt the automatic reflexes needed to read and write. Several studies have sought to identify the source of the problems encountered by ...