The workbook for first grade is designed to be a 10-minute lesson multiple days a week. That usually breaks down to about three minutes of teacher instruction and seven minutes of guided practice ...

When I was 6 years old, I was eliminated from a first-grade spelling bee for not realizing that "afford" has two "f's." Akash Vukoti would laugh at little me for being a dummy, because he's a ...

Jennifer Thompson said she will skip teaching her daughter how to spell two racial slurs listed on her first-grade spelling list. The parent of a student at H.H. Beam Elementary school in NC says ...

With that, the 11-year-old from Louisville, Ky., became the first National Spelling Bee champion. It was June 17, 1925. Tens of millions of grade-school spellers later, ...