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Show Written Work. The value of written work is ne longer questioned, and if teachers ar erring in this direction to-day it is in having too little oral work. The correction cor-rection of written work puzzles teachers teach-ers even more than the relative importance import-ance of oral and written work. Iu th olden time teachers were made to feel that they must not only personally inspect, in-spect, but correct as well, all the mistakes mis-takes of all the pupils in all the written work The real value of corrcctioni consists in giving the child a correct: for an incorrect form and then clinching clinch-ing the correct form, sinking it into the-automatic. the-automatic. It pays to make corrections with t class. A variety of methods may ba employed for this purpose. (1) Pass about among the pupils as they write, and note nn error among the pupils a-they a-they write, and note an error here and give a correct form there. By the time they have finished writiug.a large number num-ber of the mistakes will have been eor rected. (2) Have the pupils read their own work and the work of one another. As they read. the ear of both pupils and teacher will detect manv errors. Children Child-ren need more, practice in reading their own writing, as well as the writing writ-ing of their fellows. (3) Have several of the pupils transfer their written work to the blackboard, and let the class make corrections. (4) Teacher read several papers to the class, and make corrections. Do not attempt to correct all the errors of every lesson.. Take one class of mistakes, "or those common to the class, aud dwell upoa them until they are no longer made. Take the matter of punctuation aud. give it the undivided force of your corrections cor-rections until the pupils punctuate correctly. cor-rectly. Treat capitalization, paragraphing, paragraph-ing, spelling, penmanship, and correct forms of expression in a similar way. These are the mechanics, of writtcD work, aud wheu they become automatic, as they should, the full force of tho miud is reserved for the thoughts to bo expressed. ex-pressed. Supt. Will a. Monroe, i'lM ieiia. Cat. |
