THIRD YEAR
I. Rules or Reasons for Sounds.
(The effect of the position of the letter upon its sound.)
II. Effect of "r" Upon Vowels.
III. Equivalents.
IV. Teach Vowel Sounds Other Than Long and Short Sounds, by Analyzing Known Words and Phonograms.
Pupils know the phonogram "ark," learned when the following list of words was pronounced: bark, dark, hark, lark, mark, park, shark, etc. Attention is now called to the long Italian "a" sound (two dots above) and other lists pronounced; as, farm, barn, sharp, charm. Broad "a" (two dots below) is taught by recalling the familiar phonogram "all" and the series: ball, fall, call, tall, small, etc., pronounced. Also other lists containing this sound: as, walk, salt, caught, chalk, haul, claw, cause.
(The rules for sounds apply to the individual syllables in words of more than one syllable as well as to monosyllables.)