ORAL AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE 6 1 



Is your pencil broken ? My pencil isn't broken. 

 Is the ruler broken? The ruler is not broken. 



II 



Use of is and are. 



The books are on the box. The boys are good to the girls. 

 The rat is in the dish of milk. The little kitten is fat. 

 There are six kittens. Your hands are on the book. 



Ill 



Abbreviations. Capitals for proper nouns. 

 Dr. Hammond is Ada's friend. Hiram knows Dr. Cross. 

 Mr. Barr is our superintendent. Mr. Tumelty is our 

 janitor. 



Our school is on Washington St. I live on Harrison St. 



IV 



Nature Study Story. (Class Composite.) 

 We have two new caterpillars. 

 Etta and Laura gave them to us. 

 See the black rings on their green backs. 

 One has yellow spots and the other has orange spots on 

 the black rings. 



They eat parsley and anise. 



SECOND YEAR GRADE 



In this grade there are continued the systematic efforts 

 begun during the preceding year to develop power over lan- 

 guage and to make its use more accurate. 

 Language There are conversations on common objects 



of the pupils' lives ; descriptions of pictures ; 

 stories suggested by pictures ; reproductions of the stories in 



