My 10-year-old daughter Clara shifted nervously as she sat on stage waiting her turn in her elementary school’s spelling bee this January. Most of the fourth- and ...

Pencils up for your spelling test today, class. Your first word is blorskee, as in, "I lost my blorskee at a carnival." Don't know what a blorskee is? Neither does anyone else because it's a made-up ...

Tia Geisler is proof that when it comes to being an elite speller, age doesn’t matter. It is all about the letters, not the numbers, for the 9-year-old fourth-grade champion from Orchard Hollow ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 28—DEXTER — General Brown Central's Micah R. Sterling, 9, will compete Tuesday in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Micah, a ...

The word “churlish” — meaning rude, boorish, stingy or mean — might not be common in the lexicon of a fifth-grader. Despite not knowing what it means, Bird Rock Elementary School student Levi Pancer ...

DANVILLE — Ten year-old Anjali Agarwal is not known for making spelling errors in her fourth grade English class at Saint Joseph Catholic School in Danville. Agarwal is known for just the opposite and ...