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... Spelling . Dictation and Transcription Words to be used as well as spelled Thoughtful and effective reading Oral expression . · Writing and the mode of teaching it Locke's directions VIII . THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE . Language long the ...
... Spelling . Dictation and Transcription Words to be used as well as spelled Thoughtful and effective reading Oral expression . · Writing and the mode of teaching it Locke's directions VIII . THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE . Language long the ...
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... spelling , the use of words which are not understood , may not unreasonably be visited with the forfeiture of marks to which the mere memory work would be entitled . But you must make allowance for a few very innocent blunders , such as ...
... spelling , the use of words which are not understood , may not unreasonably be visited with the forfeiture of marks to which the mere memory work would be entitled . But you must make allowance for a few very innocent blunders , such as ...
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... spelling , and legible writing , should be so despised and disregarded that youths who have been at public schools are often inferior in these respects to the children of National Schools . Year by year , many young men who come up to ...
... spelling , and legible writing , should be so despised and disregarded that youths who have been at public schools are often inferior in these respects to the children of National Schools . Year by year , many young men who come up to ...
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... spelling ; while other portions of it , the Greek and the Latin derivatives , which have come to us later through the medium of literature , are , on the whole , spelled according to a consistent system , and present little or no ...
... spelling ; while other portions of it , the Greek and the Latin derivatives , which have come to us later through the medium of literature , are , on the whole , spelled according to a consistent system , and present little or no ...
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... spelling would be hope- lessly unintelligible , and the whole of our past literature , everything that is not worth re - printing would become a foreign language , and would remain unread by our suc- It is not easy to see how such a ...
... spelling would be hope- lessly unintelligible , and the whole of our past literature , everything that is not worth re - printing would become a foreign language , and would remain unread by our suc- It is not easy to see how such a ...
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