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Spelling Bee screener
12/3/2007 8:01:32 PM by: Elsi

Off I went this morning to Conifer, to run the written screening test for Elk Creek Elementary School, where I used to teach. I got the words from the Latin section of the www.myspellit.com site, the official Spelling Bee word lists. We filled the school library—every chair, every bench, and kids all over the floor. These are the best spellers from each class, and my job was to winnow them down to the best for each grade level. It wasn't an easy set of words. Started with man, but moved to creep and included bookkeeping, threshold, and nightingale. My favorite phonetic attempts: thresholed and knightingale. The oral Bee is mid-January—such fun to see these top spellers doing their thing!

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