DIRECTIONS TO THIRD GRADE TEACHERS

The advance lessons, numbered 1 to 28 inclusive, contain a minimum list of 528 new words. The supplementary list contains 80 words, which although easy to spell are not so frequently used in writing letters as are the words of the minimum list. This supplementary list is meant for those schools which because of the long school term or for other reasons, finish the minimum list before the end of the term or year. The lessons marked R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4, are made up of the eighty words taught in preceding grades, but which still give considerable difficulty to third grade children. They should be thoroughly mastered.

Directions for Teacher.—For the first few lessons direct your attention to systematizing class procedure and to teaching pupils how to study effectively. Read carefully again the suggestions on pages [vii] to [xvi].

Pupils in the third grade should be able to make their own corrections so that time may now be saved by having the pupils exchange papers during the first two tests. The teacher should continue to correct the papers written on the final test. The following suggestions will be helpful in getting the coöperation of pupils. After the papers have been exchanged say, "In writing, it is important not only that you know how to spell, but also that you make your letters so that the person who reads your paper can tell easily what you have written. This is the reason that I have asked you to exchange papers. Many people write so that certain letters cannot be told from other letters. This is true of z, g, and y; o and a; t and l; n and u; h and k. When you correct papers and cannot tell which of two letters the writer intended, mark the word wrong. Also mark it wrong if a letter has been written over or a change made. Words should be learned so that they will be written correctly without hesitation the first time. Any word which has not been learned so that it may be written correctly the first time should be studied again.

["]Remember that the purpose of this test is to find out which words need further study. It does not affect your grades. You will do the pupil whose paper you have a favor by marking his errors so that he may correct them. Mark each error by placing after it a cross—so (x)."

Pupils should keep a special list of words which they have missed in their compositions. These words should be studied by the same method used in studying the regular spelling lesson. Such words will not be taken up, however, in the regular lessons.

Remember that the lessons are arranged by weeks rather than by days. The work for each week consists of one advance column and one review column. The review column in each case is the fourth column preceding the advance work. That is, it is made up of a week's work one month old. For example, column 5 contains 20 new words to be learned in one week. During the same week, column 1 should be reviewed. The lesson for the first week consists of column 1, which is the advance lesson, and of column R 1, which is the review.

R-1	R-2	R-3	R-4
dark	meal	also	five
fair	market	held	shed
feed	leave	nap	leg
June	gather	sound	might
sit	air	these	frost
nothing	alive	lift	shall
nor	street	hope	white
saying	stick	buy	looked
step	something	neck	taken
drop	took	next	loved
dress	master	short	than
road	glass	such	hang
ground	both	right	pass
given	been	move	asleep
other	behind	mind	fellow
bit	bright	met	small
beside	lady	done	farmer
became	walk	seven	know
gray	try	fire	bringing
water	thinking	rush	taking

II. 6	II. 7	II. 7	II. 8
III. 3	III. 3	III. 3	III. 4
IV. 1	IV. 1	IV. 1	IV. 2

1	2	3	4
tone	banks	toy	bay
blush	yours	age	cent
cramp	tan	being	grade
goods	bag	lot	Monday
tub	line	pay	pie
blot	dine	seeing	pin
cards	guns	along	stove
cars	map	aside	trip
cave	bind	band	bat
chase	girls	belong	blank
darn	save	game	car
hook	kinds	hall	card
keg	bath	lake	date
lip	lap	lost	hog
yell	lock	mad	kid
pave	weeks	March	landing
peck	fool	nut	mail
plants	salt	oil	mark
sole	near-by	silk	net
split	plans	singing	park

II. 4	II. 8	II. 8	II. 9
III. 2	III. 4	III. 4	III. 5
IV. 1	IV. 2	IV. 1	IV. 2

5	6	7	8
horn	sport	page	rent
looks	Sunday	paper	spell
dig	tent	plate	post
gives	working	price	thanking
pant	able	spent	train
mouse	arm	walking	add
shore	art	willing	bean
tall	bake	within	bet
bless	born	yard	bunch
fond	faster	added	cane
showing	finding	asking	cash
mat	forgot	below	cattle
pipe	form	blame	clay
books	grand	camp	colder
tender	helping	cast	cooking
steam	hit	Christmas	cord
roar	ill	class	farming
star	kill	clean	list
tool	mill	cost	lunch
bone	note	danger	paying

II. 9	II. 10	II. 11	II. 11
III. 5	III. 5	III. 6	III. 6
V. 2	IV. 2	IV. 3	IV. 3

9	10	11	12
ink	drum	lump	rice
inch	egg	mate	rug
print	feeding	mouth	slip
brand	finger	number	smart
tenth	fit	order	spelling
tip	forgive	ours	stamp
plow	Friday	pole	test
wake	fur	porch	washing
whenever	glee	race	wishing
wild	goat	rate	belt
fort	grant	reading	grape
peach	heat	real	eve
sin	holding	report	glove
wool	hour	saved	job
sum	however	seat	lace
rail	hunting	shot	law
sack	July	sink	mend
rank	kindly	sort	ranch
brick	larger	spot	roll
write	luck	stone	self

II. 11	II. 12	II. 12	II. 12
II. 7	III. 7	III. 7	III. 8
IV. 3	IV. 3	IV. 3	IV. 4

13	14	15	16
wash	rather	teacher	birthday
wet	full	tie	bite
slide	strong	whatever	block
stock	hug	across	body
swell	strange	again	dig
trade	draw	ahead	boxes
wheel	lines	alone	broke
word	candy	always	brought
drew	sail	another	called
shows	drink	apart	case
blood	goes	April	catch
lots	comes	asked	chair
grapes	pile	aunt	check
forms	dare	badly	church
mix	means	basket	cloth
rub	shake	beat	clothing
sake	swing	because	club
maid	hide	beg	coal
sweep	desk	begin	contest
fry	wants	bench	corner

II. 13	II. 13	II. 13	II. 13
III. 8	III. 8	III. 8	III. 8
IV. 4	IV. 4	IV. 4	IV. 4

17	18	19	20
count	garden	killed	own
cross	gift	later	pack
darling	grandma	least	pain
dead	great	less	party
deal	soda	lie	passing
dearly	hair	lovely	past
December	half	making	picking
deed	happen	matter	please
died	harder	mean	plum
early	hardly	miss	pocket
eighth	having	money	point
enter	hearing	nearly	pound
evening	apples	shame	pure
fear	herself	need	queen
fight	high	nobody	rabbit
file	himself	none	reach
floor	hole	nor	riding
flour	hundred	nose	rolling
forest	indeed	oats	roof
forth	jump	only	row

II. 13	II. 13	II. 13	II. 13
III. 8	III. 8	III. 8	III. 8
IV. 4	IV. 4	IV. 4	IV. 4

21	22	23	24
safe	alike	those	hour
seem	white	thought	mail
sending	pork	thus	write
shade	yellow	tiny	flour
shape	yourself	twenty	eight
shoe	shoot	warm	weak
sight	spite	washed	sole
silver	swim	weak	ours
sir	things	which	past
sorry	gay	wonder	their
space	grave	erect	beat
spend	golden	worked	pain
spending	sharp	world	flower
spoke	smell	woven	hall
storm	smile	yesterday	maid
sunshine	stir	above	sum
talk	boy	act	real
talking	drawn	almost	ate
teeth	blanket	anything	cent
their	feather	before	need

II. 13	II. 13	II. 14	II. 13
III. 8	III. 9	III. 9	III. 8
IV. 4	IV. 4	IV. 4	IV. 4

25	26	27	28
feast	fix	quilt	sent
men	figs	rag	fur
moon	kept	rid	real
mile	lamp	sauce	sail
plant	pan	speech	roll
bags	soul	spoon	sour
beans	spoil	steak	stain
dish	truth	straw	boy
lead	wed	vines	died
hogs	roots	worms	forth
crutch	bare	ants	great
prune	fought	bark	mid
smoke	blight	bend	bus
spray	led	bills	dirt
tea	comb	breath	hair
thanks	farms	fields	choose
sea	eggs	bud	lie
laugh	lawn	lend	seem
knee	miles	hills	taste
pears	pail	key	skip

II. 12	II. 15	II. 15	II. 15
III. 7	III. 10	III. 10	III. 10
IV. 3	IV. 5	IV. 5	IV. 5

S-1	S-2	S-3	S-4
cab	pet	asks	trick
cape	heal	bald	mumps
bug	heel	pails	takes
dull	hens	blind	bedtime
fold	grin	crack	pants
poem	pour	bush	hilly
gun	pray	bull	flight
kick	hose	cords	houses
scratch	pond	cuff	postman
mop	twin	dusty	hoarse
nail	make	dwell	hopes
pint	rode	drag	knife
ties	loaf	drown	greet
push	loop	desk	lamps
rope	root	plush	makes
split	scar	sadly	gloves
mob	tuck	scalp	gentle
nod	moth	roses	glance
pad	oars	glue	manly
rob	weed	grab	shelf

II. 15	II. 15	II. 15	II. 15
III. 10	III. 10	III. 10	III. 10
IV. 5	IV. 5	IV. 5	IV. 5