Unluckily it
is not easy to produce classic English when one is writing under the
necessity of using a vocabulary previously selected. However, if we
concentrate our attention on the word-forms, we are not likely to be
much injured by the ungraceful sentence-forms. This story is not long,
but it should be dictated to every school class, beginning in the
fourth grade, until _every_ pupil can spell _every_ word correctly.
A high percentage is not enough, as in the case of some other studies.
Any pupil who misses a single word in any exercise should be marked zero.
But even if one can spell correctly every word in this story, he may still
not be a good speller, for there are thousands of other words to be
spelled, many of which are not and never will be found in any
spelling-book. The chief object of a course of study in spelling is to
acquire two habits, the habit of observing articulate sounds, and the habit
of observing word-forms in reading.
1. Train the Ear. Until the habit of observing articulate sounds
carefully has been acquired, the niceties of pronunciation are beyond
the student's reach, and equally the niceties of spelling are beyond his
reach, too.
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