Haggerty: The Ability to Read 



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had to work afternoons and evenings to earn money to help his mother, such 

 might be the case. A good girl might let her lessons go undone in order to help 

 her mother by taking care of the baby. 



1. What are some conditions that might make even the best boy leave 

 school work unfinished? 



2. What might a boy do in the evenings to help his family? 



3. How could a girl be of use to her mother? 



4. Look at these words: idle, tribe, inch, it, ice, ivy, tide, true, tip, top, tit, 

 tat, toe. 



Cross out every one of them that has an i and has not any t (T) in it. 



Set d 



Read this and then write the answers. Read it again as often as you 

 need to. 



It may seem at first thought that every boy and girl who goes to school ought 

 to do all the work that the teacher wishes done. But sometimes other duties pre- 

 vent even the best boy or girl from doing so. If a boy's or girVs father died and 

 he had to work afternoons and evenings to earn 7noney to help his inother such 

 might be the case. A good girl might let her lessons go undone in order to help 

 her mother by taking care of the baby. 



1. What is it that might seem at first thought to be true, but really is false? 



2. What might be the effect of his father's death upon the way a boy spent 

 his time? 



3. Who is mentioned in the paragraph as the person who desires to have all 

 lessons completely done? 



4. In these two lines draw a line under every 5 that comes just after a 2, 

 unless the 2 comes just after a 9. If that is the case, draw a line under 

 the next figure after the 5: 



5 36254174257654925 3 8612 

 5 4735239258479256125748 

 5 6 



METHOD OF COMPUTING SCORES 



Visual Vocabulary 



Several points in the method of scoring should be cleared up 

 before proceeding to the results. First as regards Scale A. 

 Table 1 gives the scores for a class of 41 pupils. 



