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Is drill and kill the right approach to learning to spell?

Posted on May 19, 2013 by mwalker

My headline is in lots of ways misleading for there is no one right way to learn to spell efficiently in English. In the 60’s and 70’s we made students learn to spell lists of words through repetition or drill … Continue reading →

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