An age-old staple of elementary school — the weekly spelling test — is disappearing from some classrooms. Causing confusion among parents, a growing number of schools are ditching tradition for a ...

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Misty Adoniou is a Senior Lecturer in Language, Literacy and Teaching English as a Second Language at the University of Canberra. She occasionally presents workshops in schools on the teaching of ...

ASKED WHY? THE PENN MANOR SCHOOL DISTRICT RECENTLY ANNOUNCED TRADITION SPELLING TESTS WILL SOON BE A THING OF THE PAST. PROBABLY WHAT A LOT OF US REMEMBER. SO PRETEST PRACTICE THE WORDS ALL WEEK.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Our teacher dropped the bombshell the night of Open House. There would be no more spelling tests. More than once, I asked the ...

A spelling test is very vital and basic screening for evaluating the English language skills. There are almost 1-2 questions in every SSC exams having four options out of which three are ...

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The test paper had been accidentally published on the Department for Education's website The government has been forced to cancel its controversial new spelling and grammar test after it was ...

Head teachers say they will disrupt a new spelling, grammar and punctuation test to be introduced in England's primary schools next summer. The SPAG test will be sat by pupils at the end of primary ...