The Alberta Public School Speller. Anonymous

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       Anonymous

      The Alberta Public School Speller

      Authorized by the Minister of Education for Alberta

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4064066121563

Table of Contents

       STANDARD I. Grades 1 and 2.

       Review of the Difficult Words.

       STANDARD II. GRADE 3.

       Review of the Difficult Words.

       STANDARD III. Junior. GRADE 4.

       Rules.

       Review of the Difficult Words.

       Pronounce.

       STANDARD III. Senior. GRADE 5.

       Review of the Difficult Words.

       STANDARD IV. Junior. GRADE 6.

       Review of the Difficult Words.

       Pronounce.

       STANDARD IV. Senior. GRADE 7.

       Review of the Difficult Words.

       Small Difficult Words.

       STANDARD V. Junior. GRADE 8.

       Review of the Difficult Words.

       Rules for Syllabication.

       PUBLIC SCHOOL LEAVING.

       Small Difficult Words — Use these words in sentences .

       THE BUILDING OF ENGLISH WORDS.

       PREFIXES.

       WORD-BUILDING BY THE USE OF SUFFIXES.

       ENGLISH ROOT-WORDS AND DERIVATIVES.

       LATIN WORDS AND DERIVATIVES.

       GREEK ROOT-WORDS AND DERIVATIVES.

       Words, Phrases and Noteworthy Sayings.

       Abbreviations and Contractions in Common Use.

      CHIEF FEATURES.

      1. Choice of Words. There has been a careful selection of those words best suited for the various grades or years in school.

      2. Grouping of Words. These words have been so grouped as to favor their being taught economically, and to impress upon the pupil that spelling rests largely upon a basis of law and order. In the earlier grades the sequence of lessons gives an orderly development of phonic forms; by this arrangement spelling and phonic reading can be made mutually helpful.

      3. Dictation Exercises. These are so constructed as to give in the briefest space an adequate test of the words taught. They should be supplemented by sentences constructed by the pupil, embodying the new and difficult words he is learning.

      4. Reviews. There are regular reviews at short intervals. Many of the hardest words appear several times, but with some change of context. At the end of each year's work there is given in alphabetical order a list of the most difficult words used therein.

      5. Seat Exercises. These exercises are intended to lead the pupil to make lists of words having a phonic element in common, to show how words are built up, and, later, to give practice in derivation.

      6. Homonyms. There has been a systematic use of these throughout the book, but in the junior grades they are not given together, in order to prevent the confusion that often results from such a practice.

      7. Spelling Rules. There are numerous and varied exercises to lead, inductively, to a knowledge of the most useful rules for spelling.

      8. Authority. The authority usually followed for spelling and pronunciation is The Concise Imperial Dictionary. The pupil should be taught the system of diacritical marks employed therein.

      THE ALBERTA

      PUBLIC SCHOOL SPELLER.

STANDARD I. Grades 1 and 2.

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      back

       pack

       black

      Jack

       crack

       track

      see

       whip

       give

      they

       bring

       horse

      cry

       were

       ducks

      Seat Work.—Put h, l, s, t, r, sm, st, sl, wh, qu, with—ack

      Dictation.—See Jack on a black hack. Crack the whip, Jack, and give the horse a whack. Bring back a sack of bran. Ducks cry quack. A pack of dogs ran to the hay stack. They were on the track of a black