7O METHODS IN TEACHING 



An apostrophe shows ownership and omission. Mary's 

 coat is on the rack. Don't you like to go up town? 



Ill 



Special Words and Homonyms 



Will you pare the potatoes? My pencil is broken. She 

 is going to my house. Let me see it (not " leave me," etc.). 

 Mamie writes well (not " good "). Their yard was dirty. 



IV 



Break broke breaking broken 



Tell told telling told 



Go went going gone 

 I have broken my cup and vase. I told you the answer. 



She has gone away. I have given you some candy. My 

 pen is broken. 



FOURTH YEAR GRADE 



In the oral training reproductions, descriptions, and nar- 

 rations are continued, with careful attention to vocabulary 

 building and to sentence structure. Personal 

 Lan uaee criticisms by the listening pupils are encour- 



aged so long as they are helpful and sym- 

 pathetic, but they are checked if they become unkind, sar- 

 castic, or personal. The children are still so young, how- 

 ever, that it is very easy to guide these class corrections along 

 friendly, helpful lines, thus making them sources of great 

 assistance and enthusiasm. In the technical work abbrevia- 

 tions are continued, and quotations, simple and broken, are 

 frequently drilled upon. Capitalization and punctuation 

 progress by the addition of new rules as demanded by the 



