During the first year of life, when babies spend so much time listening to language, they're actually tracking word patterns that will support their process of word- learning that occurs between the ...

Small and 'invisible' words like 'a', 'the' and 'it' appear in a similar pattern across most narratives ranging from Dickens to Spielberg - forming a blueprint for storytelling, a study has found.

NEWPORT NEWS — The weekly tradition of spelling tests is gone from elementary classrooms. Newport News Public Schools did away with them this fall in favor of “word study,” which focuses on patterns ...