Writing Sentences
Lesson 4, [Page 2]
No new spelling words occur in this lesson. It is a review, an application of some of the words learned.
The first lesson, and perhaps a few others of the same kind, should be taught from the board, although it is better that each child should have a book before him.
A child reads the first sentence from the book. “Run to me.”
The teacher says, “I will write it on the board if you will spell the words. The children in the first row stand.”
Without waiting to be called upon by name the children spell the words in turn.
The teacher says, “Run begins with a capital letter because it is the first word in a sentence. Spell it, capital R-u-n.”
When all the words in the sentence have been spelled and written on the board, the teacher places the period at the end, saying, “There is a period at the end of this sentence.”
The second sentence is to be spelled by the children and written on the board by the teacher in the same way.
The children may now copy the sentences from the blackboard.
The two things to be taught in this lesson are the capital to begin the first word, and the period at the end of the sentence.