THE SMALLER STANDARD SPELLER; CONTAINING CLASSIFIED EXERCISES FOR ORAL SPELLING; ALSO, SENTENCES FOR SILENT SPELLING, BY WRITING FROM DICTATION. BY EPES SARGENT, AUTHOR OF "THE STANDARD SPELLER," "THE STANDARD SERIES OF READERS," HARVARD PREFACE. THE present volume, like the larger Standard Speller, has been prepared with the view of combining the advantages of oral spelling with those of silent spelling, by writing from dictation. Many children will spell a word aloud, and be puzzled when told to put it in writing. Now, as we learn spelling chiefly to avoid blunders in writing, and as spelling is better learned by the eye than by the ear, dictation exercises ought to be an inseparable part of instruction. The words of this volume have been very carefully selected: such representative words being given as may be guides to the spelling of large classes of words of a similar sound, while the anomalous words are so classified as to be impressed on the memory by association. A pupil thoroughly drilled in the exercises here presented will not be far from being an accomplished speller. The dictation exercises have been written expressly for this volume, and will be found to differ from those in Sargent's larger Speller. will often find it useful to have the latter work at hand. The teacher Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, by EPES SARGENT, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. THE LETTERS PROMISCUOUSLY ARRANGED. DBC F GEHA XUY MVR W N K PJOZQISLT zw xocly bd fps mqnveh krtg & jau i THE ITALIC LETTERS. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q RSTU V W X Y Z a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z The Vowels are, a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes w The rest of the letters are consonants. and y. OLD ENGLISH CAPITALS. A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z OLD ENGLISH, Small. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ARABIC NUMERALS. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 ROMAN NUMERALS. I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. XV. XVI. XIX. XX. C. D. M. |