This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...be taken to buy those on which the words are capitalized on one side of the card and written with small letters on the other. To economize writing, if the sentences to be reproduced do not come in script with the sets of printed cards, the teacher may use a hektograph, or she may write the sentences on the blackboard ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...be taken to buy those on which the words are capitalized on one side of the card and written with small letters on the other. To economize writing, if the sentences to be reproduced do not come in script with the sets of printed cards, the teacher may use a hektograph, or she may write the sentences on the blackboard instead of supplying each pupil with a set. When a teacher is dependent on her own resources for the material for this exercise, she will find it a good plan to cut out sentences from discarded primers, being careful to trim off from the printed words all soiled margins. Matching script with script The device given above of matching script with print may be used also for training pupils in the recognition of script alone. In this case both sets of cards, the uncut sentence cards and the word cards, are in script. To economize labor in preparing this exercise a teacher may make the sentences in the different envelopes vary from one another. Instead of making twenty-one duplicates of an exercise, for example, she may make three sets of seven envelopes each, which are changed about until each pupil has become skillful in the use of all three sets of exercises. Building original sentences and sentences from memory Later on, after the pupils have become familiar with a good many sentences, the teacher removes the sentence cards from the envelopes used in the exercises above and asks the pupils to build sentences from memory and to think out sentences of their own that could be built from the words in the envelopes. Here again at the end of the period the teacher should take a few moments to look over the work and to listen to the reading of some of the sentences. Naming colors (l) Into each envelope to be passed to the pupils are placed pieces of pa...
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