Complete English for the Grades: Book 1-

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Contents

Helping Mother Joseph Clark 11 A Dictation Exercise
10
The Thirsty Crow REVIEW
12
Is and
13
Capitals in Names of Persons and Places
14
A Dictation Exercise
15
Columbus
17
Ate and Eight
18
Capital I
19
Abbreviations for Days of Week
31
A Dictation Exercise
32
A Letter 34 Use Words Correctly Write and Right
33
Dr St Ave 36 A Dictation Exercise
35
The Bee and the Butterfly 38 Picture Study A Helping Hand Renouf
37
Has and Have
38
Capitals in Names of Holidays
39
A Dictation Exercise
40
Story of the Pilgrims
41
REVIEW
42
Playfellows
43
Meat and Meet
44
Capitals in Poetry
45
A Dictation Exercise
46
Hiawatha
47
The Hyphen in Compound Words
48
A Dictation Exercise PAGE 29 30 30 33 34 35 35 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 49 50
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The New Toy 51 A Story Nathan Hale 52 Addressing an Envelope
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A Letter 54 Composition Original Letter REVIEW
53
PART II
55
Feeding Them Millet 56 A Dictation Exercise
56
The Dog and His Shadow
57
Forms of
58
Months Days
59
How to Write Dates
61
A Dictation Exercise
62
Who is the Taller 63 Use Words Correctly Waste and Waist
63
Added s to Mean More than One Reviewed
64
Mr Mrs N Y Reviewed
65
A Letter
66
Abraham Lincoln and the Birds
80
In Japan
86
The Boys and the Frogs
92
Hear and Here
99
All Aboard
105
Kittens
111
Know and No
112
Hyphen at End of Line
115
Adding s or es to y or to y Changed to i
117
Capitals in Names of Holidays Review
118
A Dictation Exercise
119
An Original Letter
120
REVIEW
121
PAGE
123
3
124
Punctuation
125
A Dictation Exercise Review
126
Their and There
127
What Things Do
128
What It Is
129
A Dictation Exercise
130
Original Using Outline Little Abes Book For Lincolns Birthday
132
Singular and Plural
133
Review Hear and Here
134
A Dictation Exercise
135
The Dolls Bath Igler
136
The What or Who Part and the Doing Part of Sentences
137
My Favorite Season and George Washing ton
138
REVIEW
139
Review Do Go There Their Here Hear
140
A Punctuation Test
141
A Composition Test
142
What They Are Picture Study A Fascinating Tale Ronner
143
Subject and Predicate Applied
145
Capitals in Poetry Review
147
A Fascinating Tale
148
Added es to Some Words Ending in o
150
What it Is
151
A Dictation Exercise
153
The Boy and the Nuts
155
Capitals Begin
157
Subject and Predicate in Longer Sentences
158
A Greedy Act
159
Abbreviations Plurals
160
A Review Drill
161
A Punctuation Test
162
A Composition Test
163
45
164
A Dictation Exercise
165
An Invitation
167
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63
181
65
182
66
183
The Five Parts of a Letter
184
New and Knew
185
Added s or es after y or y Changed to i
186
Contractions with Apostrophe
187
A Dictation Exercise
189
The Fish I Didnt Catch
191
The Plural Review
192
A Party Sentences Telling Qualities
193
Composition for Christmas
195
A Review Drill
196
Drills on Types of Sentences
197
A Composition Test
198
PART IV
201
Capital Begins Word Derived from Name of Place
202
A Dictation Exercise
203
Forms of See There and Their Review
205
Capital in Names of the Deity
206
A Dictation Exercise
207
A Review
208
Forms of Fly
210
A Review Drill
211
A Dictation Exercise
213
Capt John Smith and Pocahontas For Fall Term Washingtons Journey to French Fort
216
Drill on Plurals
217
Drill in Sentence Study
218
Plurals Review
219
The Chipmunks Busy Day
220
How to Write Broken Quotation
222
A Dictation Exercise
223
What It Is
224
An Act of Forgiveness
225
Peace and Piece
227
Plurals Review
228
A Dictation Exercise
229
Interrogative Sentence Review
230
Jamesies Mistake
231
Columbus
232
Forms of Find Isnt and Arent Berry and Bury
235
Question in
236
A Dictation Exercise
237
Drill in Sentence Making
238
A Review Drill
240
Subject and Predicate from Singular to Plural
241
Abbreviations Testwork
242
Constructing Sentences The Four Types
243
A Composition Exercise
244
Plurals Review
245
C O D
246
Drill on Parts of Letter
247
Subject Understood
248
Sentences Telling Qualities
249
A Review Drill
251
Added s to form Possessive Singular
252
A Dictation Exercise
253
What It Is
254
A Riddle Model with Outline
255
9
257
A Dictation Exercise
259
A Jolly Skipper Mabel Betsy Hill
261
JackoLantern
262
A Review Drill
263
A Punctuation Test
264
A Composition Test
265
Indention of Overrun of Lines of Poetry
266
A Dictation Exercise
267
Forms of Drown Weather and Whether
270
Review of Hyphen
272
Letter from Outlined Model
273
Than and Then
274
A Dictation Exercise
275
Little Brother Meyer von Bremen
276
Ready for Christmas
278
A Review Drill
280
A Review Drill
281
The do Type is done to Type are Type qualities Туре
282
10
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NOTES TO THE TEACHER
285
11
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A Riddle 20 23 Added es to Mean More than One 21
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INDEX
289
Mr and Mrs 25 Picture Study Feeding the Hens Millet 26 Composition Feeding the Hens
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The Secret M Wunsch 30 Capitals in Days of Week 2242722 28
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