Departments
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Dramatization.
Stories
of Instruction
which are known dramatized by the
children in the simplest way.
Memorization. Mother Goose melodies, rhymes, "memory gems," and short poems memorized.
WRITTEN LANGUAGE. Capitals and Punctuation.
Beginning of sentences, pronoun
names of persons, days of weeks, months, and Period and question mark at end of sentences. I,
lines of poetry.
Word Study. Recognition of known words in script and print. Writing and pronunciation of such words. List of words classified according to similarity of sound and representing symbol. SPELLING. Simple sentences imitated. Phonics introduced so as to give drill in the elements of orthography as well as in clear enunciation
and correct pronunciation.
Second Grade, oral language.
Work
Reproduction of
of the first grade continued.
many
of the reading lessons.
WRITTEN LANGUAGE.
Work of the first grade continued. Period after abbreviation; apostrophe in contractions and in possessive; comma after yes and no, and with names of persons Capitals and Punctuation.
addressed.
Quotation marks
in division of
Word tion
words by
Study.
emphasized
Work
in
undivided quotations; hyphen
syllables.
of the first grade continued; syllabica-
in special drills.
SPELLING.
Work
of the first grade continued.
of spelling developed inductively.
lessons studied as spelling.
A
few of the simpler rules
Words from reading and other
Shepp's
Word
Studies in the pupils'
hands.
Third Grade, oral language. Conversation lessons based on daily happenings at home, at town or communitv, and on observation, stories,
school, in the