What is the difference between Spell It! and Paideia?
In recent years and until 2006, the Paideia was the annual Scripps’ list of practice study words containing the NSB rules and approximately 3,000 to 4,000+ words arranged by category. Each page had a different category and words assigned to difficulty levels: Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced. In 2007, Scripps changed the annual study list to a booklet called Spell It! which no longer had a Scripps copyright, but instead, was copyrighted by Merriam-Webster. Containing 700 words originally, Spell It! was organized primarily by language of origin and contained spelling tips and suggested activities on each page. The number of words has increased to 1,000+. Following the drastic change in 2007, controversy sprung in the spelling world over the study list that contained only 700 words. To serious spellers, the Spell It! collection felt less challenging and many noted that the level of difficulty of the words was reduced, asserting that words in the Advanced category of Spell It! would h
