Teacher: Close your eyes, children. Can you see how r looks? (Give the sound, not the name.) Watch me make it again.
Teacher writes r slowly several times, then erases the work. Children observe, image, and then write r upon the blackboard or upon paper. If a mistake is made have the child erase, again observe the teacher as she makes the letter, then write it a second time.
II.
f.
Teach the word fun in the same manner that run was taught in Lesson I. Write on the blackboard:
r un
f un
Cover first one part and then the other, sounding each element.
Write f, r, un, on the blackboard a number of times, arranged irregularly. Review daily, adding new consonants and phonograms as they are taught.
III.
s ing.