The plans are expected to emphasise the importance of grammar, setting out exactly what children should be expected to be taught in each year of their primary schooling, as well as giving lists of words they should be able to spell.

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Examples of the words which pupils will be expected to spell include "gnash" (for eight-year-olds), "quickly" (for nine-year-olds), "marvellous" (for 10-year-olds) and "aeronaut" (for 11-year-olds).

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And finally, a colored LED display called Glowbits with individual lights that can be programmed to move forward and backward as well as spell out different words and phrases.

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Then, participants performed what is known as the Stroop task where they were asked to identify the color of various words flashed on a screen, which spell out the names of other colors.

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