67
confused by students. Then the teacher writes a word in which the new letter occurs.
For example,
B b,
bed.
Whenever the teacher writes on the blackboard he gives some explanations as to
how the letter is made, and then how the word is written.
His students follow the
movements of his hand trying to imitate them; they make similar movements with
their pens in the air, looking at the blackboard.
Much care should be given to the words whose spelling does not follow the
rules, for example,
daughter,
busy,
sure,
usual,
colonel,
clerk,
soldier, etc. Students
master the spelling of such words by means of repetitions in writing them.
The teacher shows his students how to rely on grammar in spelling the words.
The more the students get acquainted with grammar, the more will they rely on it in
their spelling.
For example, the students have learned the plural
of nouns in the English
language. Now they know that the ending
s is added, though it sounds either [s] as in
Достарыңызбен бөлісу: