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What Does a Weekly Spelling Test Really DO FOR and TO Kids and Parents??? PART 2

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Last week I introduced you to my former student, Luke, who requested testing and tutoring since he was “tired of needing parental signatures on his tests and then having to serve in ‘time out’.”  How many fifth grader pre-adolescent boys do you know who would have done that? This week, I want to share with …

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Parents Ask: How Can I Help My Child Learn to Spell? – Part 1

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PART 1-Early Elementary Students “Reading [decoding…my add] is like breathing in, and writing [spelling…my add] is like breathing out.” Pam Allyn Pam Allyn’s quote refers to the idea of sharing the voices and perspectives of the reader and the writer, but I think it also perfectly captures the reciprocal and interdependent nature of reading and …

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