HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Benjamin Bruch sits at the kitchen table with his daughter, Ellen, picking words at random from a stack of paper he holds with two hands. “Ellen, the word is seize, as in ...

OK, she probably can’t tell you who the Biggest Loser is or the latest favorite American Idol. But here’s betting Emma Peasley can read ’em both under the table. The Sussex School seventh-grader ...

Thirty-one little pairs of dress shoes tapped nervously onstage. Students heaved sighs of relief and disappointment as they got their respective words right or wrong, and hugs were plentiful among the ...

Bizantinismo...B-i-z-a-n-t-i-n-i-s-m-o...Bizantinismo! That was the word that won it all for Evelyn Juárez, a seventh grade girl from Santa Cruz N.M. who won the first national Spanish spelling bee ...

If you really want a nice challenge, you should take a look at these hardest words to spell for 6th graders. I won my school’s spelling bee in seventh grade, so I know a thing or two about how to ...

JACKSON, MI – Twisha Shetty isn’t like many other past spelling bee winners – she doesn’t know which word made her a champion. The Paragon Charter Academy seventh-grader won the 2021 MLive/Jackson ...

Payton Smidt, a seventh-grader at Tri County Public Schools, smiles Saturday as she realizes she has won the Midwest Spelling Bee. Charles Johanningsmeier of the University of Nebraska at Omaha was ...

Bee Week is here! This is not a cause for alarm; rather it's a reason to be excited. This the week of the 2015 Scripps National Spelling Bee. The final round will be televised live on Thursday from a ...

Emily Carello, a 7th grade student from H.W. Smith School in Syracuse, won The Post-Standard/WCNY Spelling Bee Saturday in a 19-round, three-hour contest that saw her battling it out with last year’s ...

JACKSON, MI -- The word “topsy-turviness” didn’t leave Thomas Hays in a state of confusion at the MLive/Jackson Citizen Patriot Spelling Bee. Instead, the Napoleon Middle School seventh-grader took ...

More than 140 students from around the state competed in the Alaska State Spelling Bee at the Sheraton Anchorage on Thursday. Joshua Saylor, a seventh-grade student at Mirror Lake Middle School in ...