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Spelling tests – How well do you score?
Familiar to most will be the weekly spelling test held on a Friday morning after a week’s practice at learning a list of words. Some will have dreaded the test fearing they may forget the “i before e”,...
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What measure success?
I have often expressed concern about what I consider to be an over-emphasis on standardised and national testing and the pressure it puts on students to achieve. I explained some reasons for my...
View ArticleInvention vs gobbledegook
One thing I love about working with beginning literacy learners is their use of invented spellings. To avoid inhibiting the flow of ideas, children are encouraged to “have a go”. This invention...
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