HIC KS'S C HAM PI ON 

 SPELLING BOOK 



By WARREN E. HICKS, Assistant Superintendent of 

 Schools, Cleveland, Ohio 



Complete, ^0.25 Part One, ^0.18 Part Two, ^0.18 



THIS book embodies the method that enabled the pupils 

 in the Cleveland schools after two years to win the Na- 

 tional Education Association Spelling Contest of 1908. 

 ^ By this method a spelling lesson of ten words is given each 

 day from the spoken vocabulary of the pupil. Of these ten 

 words two are selected for intensive study, and in the spelHng 

 book are made prominent in both position and type at the head 

 of each day's lessons, these two words being followed by the 

 remaining eight words in smaller type. Systematic review is 

 provided throughout the book. Each of the ten prominent 

 words taught intensively in a week is listed as a subordinate 

 word in the next two weeks ; included in a written spelling 

 contest at the end of eight weeks ; again in the annual contest 

 at the end of the year ; and again as a subordinate word in the 

 following year's work; — used five times in all within two 

 years. 



"^ The Champion Spelling Book consists of a series of lessons 

 arranged as above for six school years, from the third to the 

 eighth, inclusive. It presents about I, zoo words each year, 

 and teaches 312 of them with especial clearness and intensity. 

 It also includes occasional supplementary exercises which serve 

 as aids in teaching sounds, vowels, homonyms, rules of spell- 

 ing, abbreviated forms, suffixes, prefixes, the use of hyphens, 

 plurals, dictation work, and word building. The words have 

 been selected from lists, supplied by grade teachers of Cleve- 

 land schools, of words ordinarily misspelled by the pupils of 

 their respective grades. 



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