WATSON'S COMPLETE SPELLER, ORAL AND WRITTEN. By J. MADISON WATSON, Author of the National and the Independent Readers, Spellers, and Primera A. S. BARNES & COMPANY, NEW YORK, CHICAGO, AND NEW ORLEANS. S TO INSTRUCTORS. 597044 HORT LESSONS perfectly learned should be an invariable Rule in teach ing Spelling. In class recitation, Pronunciation is the first exercise con nected with spelling. Pupils who can write should copy the words and pronounce and spell them from the copy; all others should read and spell the words from the book. In Oral Spelling, the teacher should pronounce the words correctly, without regard to their orthography; and pupils, in general, should merely name the letters of words, making a marked pause at the end of each syllable, and imitating the teacher in their pronunciation. Pupils who misspell words should be required to write them on the blackboard, as misspelled, and to correct them in writing, before the class. Dictation Reviews.-After pupils have pronounced the words in the columns, and spelled them orally, they will read the corresponding Dictation Reviews with great care, thus testing their pronunciation and recalling their attention to the form of the words. The teacher will read the sentences slowly and distinctly, while the pupils write them. Blackboard exercises are preferred for class use. When slates are used, they may be expeditiously examined by requiring pupils to exchange, so that each one shall become the inspector of his neighbor's work, while the teacher spells the several words. A record of the words misspelled or mispronounced should be kept by the pupils, for reviews and special drill. Plain and inexpensive blank books, of good material and moderate size, are preferable for this purpose. The Introduction and the Appendix will be mastered at an early day, and applied constantly by the class throughout the body of the work. Pupils will also be required to construct short sentences from Words of the Lists not employed in Dictation, showing their meaning and best use. The teacher will exercise a constant and wise supervision, encouraging the pupils to do their own work, and only give the needed suggestions and aid. AUTHORS and PUBLISHERS are cautioned against the use, in their publications, of the original material, classifications, arrangements, methods, and other features of the Independent Spellers. Copyright, 1878. F. MADISON WATSON. S PELLING AND PRONUNCIATION, the educational essentials that preserve and communicate all knowledge, can be taught successfully only IN UNION. The Exercises must be both ORAL and WRITTEN, the Lessons and Methods strictly educational, and in conformity with the Laws of Mental Association. The labor normally employed in their acquisition is a reliable basis of exact scholarship and culture. Indifference in pronunciation and spelling usually means slipshod in everything. Further, formal definition, by synonym or paraphrase, may be taught in connection with Reading; but in Spelling it precludes effective classification, and detracts much from the usefulness of the lessons. The Complete Speller is an exponent of the above views. Its Vocabulary is the one actually connected with the subjects presented, and used in good speaking and writing. The Exercises are massed topically into well-defined divisions of suitable length. The Lessons are short and strictly consecutive. Significant Monosyllables are first introduced with special reference to form and sound, and arranged in columns, with the vowels in line, to exhibit individual characteristics and similarity of formation. A separate lesson is given for each vowel sound and a single vowel used therewith-after which all equivalent letters are introduced in like manner. At each opening of the book, the lessons and their corresponding reviews face one another, the former in common print and the latter in Written Characters. Thirty-five lessons are thus printed in writing. The Topics of Part Second embrace Man, and the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdoms. The lessons relate to, or are connected with, the household; the human body and its members; its food, GRAPHY TREATS of the nature and es of letters, and the correct spelling words. It properly embraces both and spelling, as neither can be well Pronunciation aphy Spelling NUNCIATION is such an easy and clear g words as gives their correct sounds, orce of voice. Its parts are articulaion, and accent. Articulation ciation Syllabication Accent LLING is the act of writing or naming |