Exercises on Words Author:William Russell Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: EXERCISE II. ORTHOGRAPHY. Form Of Exercise. — A convenient mode of prescribing a word-exercise in which the practice of orthography is intended to form a p... more »rominent part, may be found in the following plan. The teacher directs the class to prepare themselves, in proper season, so as to be ready, at the time assigned for the class-exercise, to spell, by writing on their slates, on the blackboard, or in a convenient blank book, whatever words he may choose to select from a paragraph or page, prescribed from the daily reading-lesson of the class, or from any other convenient source. The pupil's preparation extends, of course, over the whole portion assigned, for all of which he is responsible. But a selection of twenty words will usually be found to occupy advantageously all the time which can be properly devoted, in school hours, to a class-lesson in orthography, especially when it forms but a part of an exercise on words. The most convenient mode of conducting the performance of such exercises in class-form, is the following. The teacher, having previously examined the page or paragraph from which the lesson in orthography is prescribed, and having marked, with a pencil-dot, such words as he deems most important for his purpose, pronoun- ces the first of the words thus selected, and has it written by the class, as mentioned above. The remaining words of the lesson are dictated and written as the first. Suggestions. — In performing trie exercise, the youngest classes may do their work on the blackboard; the intermediate, on their slates; and the advanced, in their manuscript books. When slates are used in writing the lesson, a convenient way of ascertaining the degree of correctness attained in every exercise, is this. On finishing ' the whole number of words dicta...« less