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.
Reviews of Phonetic Words
Phonetic reviews are given frequently throughout the book. Each lesson contains one word of the series taught. These words are numbered.
Have the children open their books to the review lesson, as that on [page 6].
Let the children read the words and the families, as, run-un, me-e, play-ay, fly-y. Then have each word spelled orally.
Now dictate other words from the same families, as, sun, see, gay, cry, sand. If a pupil misspells a word, give him the number of the family in which the word occurs. Let him look in his book, study his word, and be ready to spell it when you have finished dictating other words to the rest of the class. Thus you may dictate the word say. The child hesitates or misspells the word. Give him number 3. He looks in his book, finds 3 and the well-known word play after the number. He knows the word say is in the same family, and he studies out the word while you are hearing the rest of the class spell words in the other families. When you return to him and ask, “What is your word?” he answers, “Say—s-a-y.”