Writing can be a challenge for children who have not unlocked their creativity and discovered the beauty of the written word. As early ... in other parts of the English paper, or in other subjects.

Nor is getting children to write their spelling words out 10 times ... As a result, only about 12% of words in English are spelt the way they sound. But that doesn’t mean that spelling is ...

Helen Foulkes, Head of BBC Education Today, the UK’s most successful writing competition for children, 500 Words, launched on BBC Breakfast, live from a primary school in Abergavenny.

This is an article from Curious Kids ... biggest problems for English spelling has always been changes in pronunciation. Printing helped to stablise the spelling of words, but then some sounds ...

Helen Foulkes, Head of BBC Education The UK’s most successful writing competition for children, BBC 500 Words, opens today (Tuesday 24 September). The competition, which is supported by BBC ...

Part of answering that is knowing when kids should learn to read, write, and do different kinds ... "Can they hear rhyming words? Do they know that squiggles on a page stand for sounds when ...

English teacher Carrie Beth Buchanan ... I spend a significant amount of time circling misspelled words on assignments.” This begs the question: Could text language and autocorrect technologies have ...

The children's writing competition 500 Words is to be relaunched by BBC One's Breakfast programme, three years after it was dropped from Radio 2. First launched by Chris Evans on Radio 2's own ...