The “science of reading” movement has ended, at least for now, one great literacy debate: Policymakers, education leaders, ...

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.

Many Americans can’t read or think well because they have incomplete representations in memory of... guess what? Spelling words! In recent groundbreaking scientific studies of beginning reading, along ...