spelling test

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It’s a little bit like a spelling test, but instead of single words, students are copying down several paragraphs of writing.

From NewsForKids.net • Jun. 8, 2023

To compete, students first took a written spelling test of 100 words.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2023

Introduced in 2017, the spelling test asks children to identify misspelt words.

From BBC • May 17, 2018

Child: I had cold pizza and Skittles for breakfast, and then I got a 100 on my spelling test.

From Slate • Oct. 7, 2015

The teacher helped her put the cap back on, then we finished the spelling test and did some fingerpainting, and after school that day Nick Veenhof and I walked her home.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien