Part 2

9. Study each word by this method. Take special pains to attend closely to each step in the method. Hard and careful work is what counts.

=Take Pains with Your Spelling in all Writing.=--Take pride in having your compositions and letters free from spelling errors. When you are in the slightest doubt as to how to spell a word, look it up in the dictionary before you write it. When you have found the word in the dictionary, learn it by the method by which you study your regular spelling lessons. In a similar way, if you do make a mistake in spelling in your compositions, learn the word which you misspelled by this same method.

=Reviews.=--Whenever you have a few minutes after having prepared some lesson, turn back to the errors which you have made on previous spelling tests and spend some time going over the words which you missed on those tests. Occasionally when you are at home, you will find it interesting to have your mother or father or some friend test you over all the words you have missed during the year. You should not be satisfied until you can spell every word correctly.

=Notebook.=--Keep a spelling notebook. Whether your teacher requires it or not, you will find it very much worth while to keep a spelling notebook. In this you should record all words missed on any test or in compositions which you write. If you find that you are frequently missing a word, write it in a special list and review it frequently.

FIRST GRADE DIRECTIONS TO FIRST GRADE TEACHERS

The words in the lessons for first grade children are few in number and relatively easy. You will notice that most of them are phonetic. Each word has been found to be used in correspondence and in a majority of first grade readers. This list is therefore particularly appropriate for first grade children and may be easily learned by them. The authors recommend that this work be begun in the second half year.

=Directions for Teaching.=--Read again the general directions on pages vii to xvi, inclusive. In general the method used in grade one is the same as that used in later grades. There are, however, certain important differences. You will notice, for example, that first grade lessons contain ten instead of twenty words. You will need also to give more attention for the first two or three weeks to initiating correct habits of study. Remember that teachers above grade one will build upon habits which you initiate.

The words in the first grade list are very simple, so that there should be no difficulty in learning to spell them. Neither should the children have any difficulty in understanding any of the one hundred fifty words.

=Directions for Schools in Which the Pupils do Not Write in Grade One.=--The pupils in such schools should be taught to study according to the first six directions given under How to Learn to Spell a Word, page xv. The tests in these cases will have to be oral tests. Otherwise, the methods recommended in the general directions may be used.

1 2 3 4

is be but that

and can dear to-day

are dog did up

day good do was

he my go an

in see his as

it she little big

me you look come

all book not for

at boy out get

Standard Number of Errors

I. ( ) I. ( ) I. ( ) I. ( )

II. 1 II. 1 II. 2 II. 2

III. 0 III. 1 III. 1 III. 1

5 6 7 8

hand old way gold

have on will hat

if one your her

into over away home

land run by how

last say cannot ice

let tell doing looking

like the down love

man this eat of

may tree give play

Standard Number of Errors

I. ( ) I. ( ) I. ( ) I. ( )

II. 2 II. 2 II. 3 II. 3

III. 1 III. 1 III. 1 III. 1

9 10 11 12

so us bee far

ten when call fat

thank wind cane five

them with cat from

then after coat gave

thing am cold girl

think apple corn going

three baby cow green

time bed each had

Standard Number of Errors

I. ( ) I. ( ) I. ( ) I. ( )

II. 3 II. 3 II. 4 II. 4

III. 1 III. 2 III. 2 III. 2

13 14 15 16

hard must school all

has night send be

hen no six see

just or snow not

live pig sun may

made playing they for

make put top in

milk red what do

mother ring wood so

much sat ran no

Standard Number of Errors

I. ( ) I. ( ) I. ( ) I. ( )

II. 4 II. 4 II. 4 II. 1

III. 2 III. 2 III. 2 III. 1

SECOND GRADE DIRECTIONS TO SECOND GRADE TEACHERS

The second grade list of words contains 340 new words in addition to the review lessons, which include 80 of the most difficult first grade words, and 60 of the homonyms which give the most trouble. The new words are all words frequently used, are words which second grade children can learn easily and, for the most part, are frequently found in the second readers most commonly used. You will find that the method outlined below will enable you to teach these words so that your classes will make very nearly a perfect score on them.

=Directions for Teaching.=--Read again the directions for teaching as given on pages vii to xvi. You will find it advisable to take some time at the beginning of the term to teach pupils how to study. You will still find it necessary to correct the papers yourself. You may follow the same schedule as that outlined in the general directions. Watch particularly for improper methods of study.

Second grade pupils should write their tests without hesitation and with fair speed. Explain to the pupils with great care that letters which are not made plainly will be counted wrong.

Remember that the lessons are arranged by weeks rather than by days. The work for each week consists of one advance column and one review column. The review column in each case is the fourth column preceding the advance work. That is, it is made up of a week's work one month old. For example, column 5 contains 20 new words to be learned in one week. During the same week, column 1 should be reviewed. The lesson for the first week consists of column 1, which is the advance lesson, and of column R 1, which is the review.

R-1 R-2 R-3 R-4

dear sat top make

fat bee playing milk

cow baby came her

get has pig apple

some home give with

we looking had when

way love from down

run red far six

gold like call send

cat going ice school

cold corn thank live

or box put gave

them am fast snow

girl then by what

this eat made mother

three thing night after

ring much one just

cannot time bed hard

wind over sun wood

hat they must five

Standard Number of Errors

I. ( ) I. ( ) I. ( ) I. ( )

II. 5 II. 6 II. 7 II. 8

III. 3 III. 3 III. 3 III. 4

1 2 3 4

ask forget ear year

back fun days ago

best grass sing door

bill happy doll got

black hay hope May

blow hill grow bad

bring him boys ball

butter hot fly bank

cake inside hands bell

cap its pink end

child joy dry foot

cup keep times free

cut kind string king

ever kiss bread letter

face late needs most

farm lay rise same

feet left skin ship

fill light cry till

fish low story yet

food meat tall about

Standard Number of Errors

I. ( ) I. ( ) I. ( ) I. ( )

II. 8 II. 8 II. 7 II. 6

III. 4 III. 4 III. 3 III. 3

5 6 7 8

more said very beside

morning sand wall better

Mr. sent want bird

name side war blue

never sister week brother

nine small well calling

now stand west mild

off standing where care

once state why city

papa stay win cook

part sweet wish cover

pen take work cream

place telling yes dark

poor there afternoon deep

rain to any dinner

read told around drive

rest took barn drop

rich town bear dust

ride two became east

room under become even

Standard Number of Errors

I. ( ) I. ( ) I. ( ) I. ( ) II. 8 II. 8 II. 9 II. 10 III. 4 III. 4 III. 5 III. 5

9 10 11 12

eye large pick sold

fall life pine son

fell lived plan song

felt lives river soon

find long road spring

fine longer rock step

flat looked rose stop

found mine sad store

four Miss saw such

gate mud saying summer

glad myself seed supper

gone near seen table

gray now sell thin

head nice set thinking

hear noon sheep to-night

help oh shop too

here older show trust

hold open sleep upon

house our slow walk

hunt outside soft water

Standard Number of Errors

I. ( ) I. ( ) I. ( ) I. ( ) II. 10 II. 10 II. 10 II. 10 III. 5 III. 5 III. 5 III. 5

13 14 15 16

went bright fellow market

were bringing fire master

while buy first meal

who children flower meet

wide clear frost met

wife clock gather might

window close given mind

winter coming glass move

without cool ground nap

air could hang neck

alive dance held next

also die horse north

asleep done June nothing

ate pale know other

been dress lady pass

behind every leave goats

bid fair leg right

bit farmer lift round

boat father loved rush

both feed many seven

Standard Number of Errors

I. ( ) I. ( ) I. ( ) I. ( ) II. 12 II. 12 II. 12 II. 12 III. 6 III. 7 III. 7 III. 7

17 18 19 20

shall to seen oh

short way him wood

shut we hay blue

sick dear rain hear

sit some can't fair

something ring here might

sound ball there new

south bee son buy

start May too know

stick bad bear meet

still red two right

stood one low road

street by sell die

taken made ate done

taking sun very flower

teach feet read air

then Miss our be

these do four bread

true sent gray needs

try week meat not

Standard Number of Errors

I. ( ) I. ( ) I. ( ) I. ( ) II. 12 II. 6 II. 9 II. 12 III. 7 III. 3 III. 5 III. 7

THIRD GRADE DIRECTIONS TO THIRD GRADE TEACHERS

The advance lessons, numbered 1 to 28 inclusive, contain a minimum list of 528 new words. The supplementary list contains 80 words, which although easy to spell are not so frequently used in writing letters as are the words of the minimum list. This supplementary list is meant for those schools which because of the long school term or for other reasons, finish the minimum list before the end of the term or year. The lessons marked R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4, are made up of the eighty words taught in preceding grades, but which still give considerable difficulty to third grade children. They should be thoroughly mastered.

=Directions for Teacher.=--For the first few lessons direct your attention to systematizing class procedure and to teaching pupils how to study effectively. Read carefully again the suggestions on pages vii to xvi.

Pupils in the third grade should be able to make their own corrections so that time may now be saved by having the pupils exchange papers during the first two tests. The teacher should continue to correct the papers written on the final test. The following suggestions will be helpful in getting the cooperation of pupils. After the papers have been exchanged say, "In writing, it is important not only that you know how to spell, but also that you make your letters so that the person who reads your paper can tell easily what you have written. This is the reason that I have asked you to exchange papers. Many people write so that certain letters cannot be told from other letters. This is true of z, g, and y; o and a; t and l; n and u; h and k. When you correct papers and cannot tell which of two letters the writer intended, mark the word wrong. Also mark it wrong if a letter has been written over or a change made. Words should be learned so that they will be written correctly without hesitation the first time. Any word which has not been learned so that it may be written correctly the first time should be studied again.

"Remember that the purpose of this test is to find out which words need further study. It does not affect your grades. You will do the pupil whose paper you have a favor by marking his errors so that he may correct them. Mark each error by placing after it a cross--so (x)."

Pupils should keep a special list of words which they have missed in their compositions. These words should be studied by the same method used in studying the regular spelling lesson. Such words will not be taken up, however, in the regular lessons.

Remember that the lessons are arranged by weeks rather than by days. The work for each week consists of one advance column and one review column. The review column in each case is the fourth column preceding the advance work. That is, it is made up of a week's work one month old. For example, column 5 contains 20 new words to be learned in one week. During the same week, column 1 should be reviewed. The lesson for the first week consists of column 1, which is the advance lesson, and of column R 1, which is the review.

R-1 R-2 R-3 R-4

dark meal also five

fair market held shed

feed leave nap leg

June gather sound might

sit air these frost

nothing alive lift shall

nor street hope white

saying stick buy looked

step something neck taken

drop took next loved

dress master short than

road glass such hang

ground both right pass

given been move asleep

other behind mind fellow

bit bright met small

beside lady done farmer

became walk seven know

gray try fire bringing

water thinking rush taking

Standard Number of Errors

II. 6 II. 7 II. 7 II. 8 III. 3 III. 3 III. 3 III. 4 IV. 1 IV. 1 IV. 1 IV. 2

1 2 3 4

tone banks toy bay

blush yours age cent

cramp tan being grade

goods bag lot Monday

tub line pay pie

blot dine seeing pin

cards guns along stove

cars map aside trip

cave bind band bat

chase girls belong blank

darn save game car

hook kinds hall card

keg bath lake date

lip lap lost hog

yell lock mad kid

pave weeks March landing

peck fool nut mail

plants salt oil mark

sole near-by silk net

split plans singing park

Standard Number of Errors

II. 4 II. 8 II. 8 II. 9 III. 2 III. 4 III. 4 III. 5 IV. 1 IV. 2 IV. 1 IV. 2

5 6 7 8

horn sport page rent

looks Sunday paper spell

dig tent plate post

gives working price thanking

pant able spent train

mouse arm walking add

shore art willing bean

tall bake within bet

bless born yard bunch

fond faster added cane

showing finding asking cash

mat forgot below cattle

pipe form blame clay

books grand camp colder

tender helping cast cooking

steam hit Christmas cord

roar ill class farming

star kill clean list

tool mill cost lunch

bone note danger paying

Standard Number of Errors

II. 9 II. 10 II. 11 II. 11 III. 5 III. 5 III. 6 III. 6 IV. 2 IV. 2 IV. 3 IV. 3

9 10 11 12

ink drum lump rice

inch egg mate rug

print feeding mouth slip

brand finger number smart

tenth fit order spelling

tip forgive ours stamp

plow Friday pole test

wake fur porch washing

whenever glee race wishing

wild goat rate belt

fort grant reading grape

peach heat real eve

sin holding report glove

wool hour saved job

sum however seat lace

rail hunting shot law

sack July sink mend

rank kindly sort ranch

brick larger spot roll

write luck stone self

Standard Number of Errors

II. 11 II. 12 II. 12 II. 12 III. 7 III. 7 III. 7 III. 8 IV. 3 IV. 3 IV. 3 IV. 4

13 14 15 16

wash rather teacher birthday

wet full tie bite

slide strong whatever block

stock hug across body

swell strange again dig

trade draw ahead boxes

wheel lines alone broke

word candy always brought

drew sail another called

shows drink apart case

blood goes April catch

lots comes asked chair

grapes pile aunt check

forms dare badly church

mix means basket cloth

rub shake beat clothing

sake swing because club

maid hide beg coal

sweep desk begin contest

fry wants bench corner

Standard Number of Errors

II. 13 II. 13 II. 13 II. 13 III. 8 III. 8 III. 8 III. 8 IV. 4 IV. 4 IV. 4 IV. 4

17 18 19 20

count garden killed own

cross gift later pack

darling grandma least pain

dead great less party

deal soda lie passing

dearly hair lovely past

December half making picking

deed happen matter please

died harder mean plum

early hardly miss pocket

eighth having money point

enter hearing nearly pound

evening apples shame pure

fear herself need queen

fight high nobody rabbit

file himself none reach

floor hole nor riding

flour hundred nose rolling

forest indeed oats roof

forth jump only row

Standard Number of Errors

II. 13 II. 13 II. 13 II. 13 III. 8 III. 8 III. 8 III. 8 IV. 4 IV. 4 IV. 4 IV. 4

21 22 23 24

safe alike those hour

seem white thought mail

sending pork thus write

shade yellow tiny flour

shape yourself twenty eight

shoe shoot warm weak

sight spite washed sole

silver swim weak ours

sir things which past

sorry gay wonder their

space grave erect beat

spend golden worked pain

spending sharp world flower

spoke smell woven hall

storm smile yesterday maid

sunshine stir above sum

talk boy act real

talking drawn almost ate

teeth blanket anything cent

their feather before need

Standard Number of Errors

II. 13 II. 13 II. 14 II. 13 III. 8 III. 9 III. 9 III. 8 IV. 4 IV. 4 IV. 4 IV. 4

25 26 27 28

feast fix quilt sent

men figs rag fur

moon kept rid real

mile lamp sauce sail

plant pan speech roll

bags soul spoon sour

beans spoil steak stain

dish truth straw boy

lead wed vines died

hogs roots worms forth

crutch bare ants great

prune fought bark mid

smoke blight bend bus

spray led bills dirt

tea comb breath hair

thanks farms fields choose

sea eggs bud lie

laugh lawn lend seem

knee miles hills taste

pears pail key skip

Standard Number of Errors

II. 12 II. 15 II. 15 II. 15 III. 7 III. 10 III. 10 III. 10 IV. 3 IV. 5 IV. 5 IV. 5

S-1 S-2 S-3 S-4

cab pet asks trick

cape heal bald mumps

bug heel pails takes

dull hens blind bedtime

fold grin crack pants

poem pour bush hilly