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Show Written Work. The value of written work is n longer questioned, and if teachers ar erring in this direction to-day it is in having too little oral work. The cor. rection of written work puzzles teach, ers even more than the relative import- ance of oral and written work. In tin olden time teachers were made to feel that they must not only personally in- spect, but correct as well, all the mis-' mis-' takes of all the pr.pils in all the written j work The real value of correctioni consists in giving the child a correct for au incorrect form and . then clinching clinch-ing the correct form, sinkiugit into the automatic It pays to make corrections with class. A variety of methods may bo employed for this purpose. (1) Pass . , about among the pupils as they write, ! and note an error among tho pupils at they write, ami note an error here and give a correct form there. By the lime they have linislied writiug.a large number num-ber of the mistakes will have been corrected. cor-rected. (2) Have the pupils read theit I own work and the work of one another. As they read. the ear of both pupils and teacher will detect many 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 tha class make corrections. (4) Teacher read several papers to the class, and make corrections. Do not attempt to correct all the enors of every lesson. Take one class of mistakes, "or those common to the class, and dwell upoa them until they are no longer made. Take the matter of punctuatiou and 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. writteD work, and wheri they become initomatic, as they should, the fyll force ot the mind is reserved for the thoughts to he expressed. ex-pressed. tiupt. Will Monroe, i'oso-leiw. i'oso-leiw. Cat. |