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Spelling tests do not build spellers

What actually transfers to writing, and what evaporates by Monday.

What actually transfers to writing, and what evaporates by Monday.

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Meera R.

Teaches English at Rao Academy for Grades 3 to 10 and mentors families in their first term. Fourteen years of classroom teaching before that.