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... grow easier , as he will already have become familiar with many of the words which they contain . In some cases , the teacher will probably find it best to require the scholar to spell only a part of the columns , when he first reads ...
... grow easier , as he will already have become familiar with many of the words which they contain . In some cases , the teacher will probably find it best to require the scholar to spell only a part of the columns , when he first reads ...
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... light and heat . It is so bright , that it will hurt your eyes to look much at it . The light and heat of the Sun , make the trees , and grass , and all the plants grow . 4. When the Sun is about to rise , all. 3 THE SUN . 25.
... light and heat . It is so bright , that it will hurt your eyes to look much at it . The light and heat of the Sun , make the trees , and grass , and all the plants grow . 4. When the Sun is about to rise , all. 3 THE SUN . 25.
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... grows dark , and the birds and beasts go to their homes , and rest all the night . 3. Some wild beasts sleep in the day time , and walk about in the night . They can see when it is dark . Owls and bats fly in the night , and can see ...
... grows dark , and the birds and beasts go to their homes , and rest all the night . 3. Some wild beasts sleep in the day time , and walk about in the night . They can see when it is dark . Owls and bats fly in the night , and can see ...
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... grow love beast good grows earth beasts night rest will lar - ger oft - en a - ny lar - gest a - bout de - sire eve - ning e - vil i - dle ri - ses wild hope ris - en wild - er ho - ping ri - sing wild - est ho - peth Jan. sometimes ...
... grow love beast good grows earth beasts night rest will lar - ger oft - en a - ny lar - gest a - bout de - sire eve - ning e - vil i - dle ri - ses wild hope ris - en wild - er ho - ping ri - sing wild - est ho - peth Jan. sometimes ...
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... grow out of the ground . 3. David . But who makes them grow ? I do not know how to make a tree grow . I put my stick into the ground yesterday , but it would not make a tree . 4. Father . No ; you cannot make a tree grow , nor a plant ...
... grow out of the ground . 3. David . But who makes them grow ? I do not know how to make a tree grow . I put my stick into the ground yesterday , but it would not make a tree . 4. Father . No ; you cannot make a tree grow , nor a plant ...
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a-bout a-ny a-way articulation aunt avoided Berkeley birds brook field cake called catch Charles CHARLES BELL Clara clothes common errors consonant corn cows Cup and Ball David Dick diphthong e-nough Ellen Elocution Emily and Frances English language ev-e-ry father fault fields flax garden give glad grass grow happy heard hill Howard and Francis Hundredth hurt inflection Jane John John Holt John Reed Joseph kind labial lambs LESSON letter LIBRARY little girl live look Lord ma-ny Moon mother never Orthoepy Ostrich oth-er parents Peggy play pretty pronunciation Reading and Spelling Samuel Worcester scholars seeds series of Reading sheep sister SOAP BUBBLES sometimes soon sorry sport spring teacher tell things thought told tree true sound UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ver-y vowel wagon walk Walker's notation warm wicked William wood WORCESTER'S words
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Page 9 - This vowel is not what it would, at first sight, appear to be, — a perfectly simple sound: it consists in reality of two sounds, — that which, in common pronunciation, commences the name of the letter, (a) and that which, in a prolonged utterance, is heard at its close, and which approaches to the name sound of the vowel e. A clear and just articulation of the name sound of a has regard to this complexity of its nature, and closes with a very slight and delicate approach to the sound of e, so...
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Page 74 - ... Spelling (Boston, 1830). It is a letter written by Lucy Turner, a country girl, thirteen years old, to her mother, who was spending a month in Boston at the home of Lucy's aunt, Mrs. White. This letter serves as a dreadful example to all children who, like Lucy, "never take any pains to learn to spell.
Page 9 - The grave accent, or falling inflection, (*) denotes the downward slide of voice, as heard at a period; the acute accent, or rising inflection, (') denotes the upward slide, usually heard at a comma. The application of these inflections, is not necessary to practice in articulation, and, if found embarrassing, may be omitted. The early acquisition of them, however, will save much time in future lessons ; and since the words in these exercises must all be articulated with one inflection or other,...
Page 9 - Avle ace age, aim day bail, dale fail say, pave tape hail, haze may gaze, late maid nay, vail make fame, tail pay lade, jade gay sail, fate faith daily, fade make gate, take mail sale. A, as in Far : Au, as in Launch. Marked as the ' second ' sound of a, in Walker's notation.
Page 2 - The above form a complete series of Reading Books, which are not surpassed by any other works for this purpose now before the public. The...