“Mr. Grinch! The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote: Stink, stank, stunk!” This wonderful lesson in irregular verbs is from the song “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” in the ...

In school, many kindergarten and first-grade students are asked to memorize lists of common words, which are sometimes called “sight words.” This practice skips important steps. The idea that children ...

Spelling tricky words – such as “yacht” – is no day at the beach, it seems. New brain-scan images have shown how our minds struggle when the sound of the word does not closely match its spelling. The ...