This book is not a language book nor a supplementary reader, but a speller pure and simple. It aims to teach spelling from the outset in the same definite and systematic way in which number is taught. This involves devoting a few minutes each day to spelling as a distinct subject. The attempt to teach spelling incidentally has proved a failure. Equally fruitless has been the effort to select all words for the spelling lesson from the nature, language. And reading lessons. The words so selected may easily be read by the child, because reading involves grasping the words as wholes; but they are frequently too difficult to be spelled, and many do not lend them selves to definite, progressive Spelling instruction. If it becomes necessary to use these more difficult words in written exercises, they should invariably be Copied.