Sentences with phrase «spelling test even»

Pupils with profound hearing impairment may not be able to participate in the spelling aspect of the English grammar, punctuation and spelling test even with the full range of access arrangements.

Not exact matches

Evenings are leisurely, without the stress of spelling tests to study for and homework.

And she found that it's incredibly predictive, that people are pretty honest about their grit levels and that those who say, «Yes, I really stick with tasks,» are much more likely to succeed, even in tasks that involve a lot of what we think of as IQ: She gave the test to students who were in the National Spelling Bee and the kids with the highest grit scores were more likely to persist to the later rounds; she gave it to freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania and grit helped them persist in college; she even gave it to cadets at West Point and it predicted who was going to survive this initiation called «Beast Barracks.»

But when the tissues of the next generation were tested, they had differentially expressed genes — clear signs of epigenetic memory — even though they themselves had never experienced a hot spell.

And it's like the first boy who told me we should just be friends out on the blacktop at recess, the girls who put their lunch boxes on the cafeteria benches so I couldn't sit down, the F in red ink on my spelling test, the words «I want a girl to spend my life with and you're just not her,» the music teacher who mocked me for getting too nervous to sing the right notes, the nasty comment from a stranger, and the job interviewer who doesn't even pretend to be interested all over again.

However, determining «best practices» in teaching is far from a straightforward process, as even professionals disagree over how an effective teacher approaches bilingual education, homework, student testing, student spelling and grammar, student - directed learning, «multicultural» lessons, discipline, desk arrangement, scientific inquiry, and so on.

We look to the end - of - week spelling test, the end - of - quarter biology exam, even the high school exit exam, to tell us whether our children are developing the skills and learning the material they'll need to succeed both in and out of school.

Moreover, the aspects of civics that can be spelled out in academic standards and accurately assessed through statewide tests are almost entirely cognitive: well worth learning, to be sure, even a necessary precondition for successful adult life, but not exactly what people have in mind when they say that schools should forge «responsible citizens.»

Even recently, as a semi-competent writer, I sat an English writing course only to be reminded of those unrelenting spelling and grammar tests.