It also takes the place of the voice for
dictation in spelling tests by mail or through the medium of books.
*There should be no more marks than there are sounds. When two vowels
have the same sound one should be written as a substitute for the other,
as we have done in this book.
2. Train the Eye. No doubt the most effective way of learning spelling
is to train the eye carefully to observe the forms of the words we read
in newspapers and in books. If this habit is formed, and the habit of
general reading accompanies it, it is sufficient to make a nearly
perfect speller. The great question is, how to acquire it.
Of course in order to read we are obliged to observe the forms of words
in a general way, and if this were all that is needed, we should all
be good spellers if we were able to read fluently. But it is not all.
The observation of the general form of a word is not the observation
that teaches spelling. We must have the habit of observing every
letter in every word, and this we are not likely to have unless
we give special attention to acquiring it.
The "visualization" method of teaching spelling now in use in the
schools is along the line of training the eye to observe every letter
in a word.
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