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Samuel Worcester. LESSON I. THE SUN . 1. The little boys and girls who have read my PRIMER , may be glad to have me give them a new book . You must learn to read and spell all the words in this SECOND BOOK , and to tell what is said in ...
Samuel Worcester. LESSON I. THE SUN . 1. The little boys and girls who have read my PRIMER , may be glad to have me give them a new book . You must learn to read and spell all the words in this SECOND BOOK , and to tell what is said in ...
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... girls do not strike nor speak harsh or cross words ; but they try to make each other happy . 9. The stars are very pretty , and look like a great many little spangles . They look so small , because they are so far from us . If you were ...
... girls do not strike nor speak harsh or cross words ; but they try to make each other happy . 9. The stars are very pretty , and look like a great many little spangles . They look so small , because they are so far from us . If you were ...
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... little busy bee . " You may learn it , you do not know it . John did not ... small boys , as the great ones are now to him . 7. John Holt will not fight ... girl giving John a piece of her cake . She gave him more than half , because ...
... little busy bee . " You may learn it , you do not know it . John did not ... small boys , as the great ones are now to him . 7. John Holt will not fight ... girl giving John a piece of her cake . She gave him more than half , because ...
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... little girls at work around the table . One is making a shirt for her brother . Another is hemming a cravat for her fa- her . Another is knitting some socks for i poor boy , that has no father or mother . The smallest one is reading a ...
... little girls at work around the table . One is making a shirt for her brother . Another is hemming a cravat for her fa- her . Another is knitting some socks for i poor boy , that has no father or mother . The smallest one is reading a ...
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... little girl . It pleased her to do as her parents wished , and she loved her books , and her work , and to read her Bible , and say her prayers . 2. This was all right , and it made her parents and friends very happy . Besides this ...
... little girl . It pleased her to do as her parents wished , and she loved her books , and her work , and to read her Bible , and say her prayers . 2. This was all right , and it made her parents and friends very happy . Besides this ...
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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...