The Test and Study Speller: First-[third] bookSilver, Burdett, 1921 - Spellers |
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Page xiv - ... largely isolated; it does not link itself organically to the range of the ideas and words that are in vogue outside the school. Hence the enlargement that takes place is often nominal, adding to the inert, rather than to the active, fund of meanings and terms. b. Rendering the Vocabulary More Precise. One way in which the fund of words and concepts is increased is by discovering and naming shades of meaning — that is to say, by making the vocabulary more precise. Increase in definiteness is...
Page xv - On the basis of these data we conclude that knowledge of meaning is probably in and of itself an important determinant of error in spelling; that children will produce about sixty-six and two-thirds per cent, more of misspellings in writing words of the meaning of which they are ignorant or uncertain, than they will produce in writing words the meaning of which they know.
Page 31 - THE stormy March is come at last, With wind, and cloud, and changing skies. I hear the rushing of the blast, That through the snowy valley flies Ah, passing few are they who speak, Wild stormy month! in praise of thee; Yet, though thy winds are loud and bleak, Thou art a welcome month to me. For thou, to northern lands, again The glad and glorious sun dost bring, And thou...
Page iii - The common sense answer is : He should know how to spell the word,s that he needs to write as a child, or that he will need to write as an adult. How may we know what these words are ? By finding out the words that both children and adults use in their writing.
Page 37 - ... in spelling and meaning. [8] XX. The hyphen is always used in writing the words for numbers like twenty-five. [8] XXI. Final y is changed to i before any suffix that does not begin with i. In carriage, marriage, and like words final y is changed to i before a suffix beginning with a vowel. [8] XXII. A word used as a base to which a prefix or a suffix is added is called a root. [7] XXIII. Words ending with the suffix ful have only one I at the end. [7] XXIV. Letter q is always followed by letter...
Page vii - This lack of improvement is largely due to the fact that the experimental data have been in technical form and have not been accessible to the teacher and supervisor.
Page viii - ... problems of backward and abnormal children, and in effectively conserving our human resources. How well the public schools meet these problems depends in a large measure upon the efficiency and high ideals of our schools for the training of teachers — the state normal schools. DISCUSSION CW STONE, head of Department of Education and director of Training School, State Normal School, Farmville, Va. — In opening the discussion I shall offer three points for your consideration: 1.
Page 5 - You should be able to give the long and the short sounds of all the vowels, the hard and soft sounds of c and g, and the s and z sounds of s. But there are little "helping words...