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(LR has weekly spelling tests, so we review the words a couple of times during the week at home.)

Dad: Okay. Time for spelling practice… First word, ‘Sight’.

LR: That’s not right dad. That’s the second last word.

Dad: I know. I’m doing them out of order so it’s more difficult.

LR: (sighing) Okay. How about we start at the end and go backwards?

Dad: I guess that’ll work… ‘Right’.

LR: Done.

Dad: ‘Sight.’

LR: (writing furiously) Yes, yes. Then ‘might’.

Dad: ‘Few’

LR: (angrily) Dad stop giving me the answers! It’s cheating if you tell me the words!

LR: (returns to writing) … ‘Four’.. ‘Where’… ‘Year’… ‘Know’… That’s it!

Dad: Yep, perfect.

(She had spelled everything correctly, in exact reverse order from the original list, completely from memory.)

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