More ambitious teachers, and those who emphasize phonics earlier in the reading process, may wish to continue this analysis of words even further, by separating each word into three or more parts, having the child give the sound of each letter, thus,

c a t,m a t,b a t
m a t
b a t

The jingles lend themselves to both treatments. But it will be more in keeping with modern pedagogy if the separation of words is limited at this stage to analyzing words into phonetic families, as, for instance, the family of “at,” the family of “ap,” etc. This treatment is advised for primer work.

Mother Goose rimes may be read later in the book where several of them are given. Before they are read by the children the rimes should be memorized and then dramatized in the simple childlike way in which the young actors in the book are represented as playing Jack and Jill. A short phonic drill is then deduced from the Mother Goose rime in much the same way as from the phonic jingles.

When the children have learned to sound cat, mat, hit, sit, etc. (pages [51] and [68]), and to find, from these words, the stems at and it, the teacher should reverse the process, leading the children to build words from such stems as an, am, and, end, in, on, up, all, is, as, etc.