GRADED LIST OF COMMON WORDS DIFFICULT TO SPE COMPILED BY JAMES H. PENNIMAN, INSTRUCTOR IN ENGLISH IN THE DE LANCEY SCHOO PHILADELPHIA: SHERMAN & CO., PRINTERS. Many thoughtful educators agree on the ag points with regard to spelling : 1. That numerous difficult words are so u hat one may be pardoned reference to a ry on the rare occasions when he needs nem. It is a waste of a child's mental en nake him learn to spell words like chamel dipocere, as long as he spells which with ogether with an a. 2. That many words are so easy that th e learned from general reading by the f unconscious absorption. 3. That words should be arranged "so a bring together a number of words of th combination, and thereby," as W. T. United States Commissioner of Educatio says, "paralyze the memory, as is too fred he case in the lists given in spelling-books, For example, collect in one lesson the wors ng in tion, or tain, or ture, or cious, etc., thus to the pupil by the first word that is spelleto all that follow." Words of the same co tion of letters can be learned, no doub short time, but school examinations show this arrangement no lasting impression i on the mind. |