Linda Tarrant, one of the nation’s foremost spelling coaches, said her company’s programs run at least eight weeks, with one hour of coaching each week by Skype or phone. “We teach vocabulary skills,” said Ms. Tarrant, who leads Hexco, a Texas-based company, and coached her three children in spelling. We teach rules for spelling words from different languages like Spanish and Japanese and Italian. The longer they’re in coaching, the more they get: They get down to Afrikaans, they get down to Polynesian.”[We made a Spelling Bee quiz for you. At the same time, experts said, youth competitions are changing in more arenas than spelling.

Source: New York Times June 01, 2019 00:09 UTC