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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · May 4, 1905

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 18.

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Diacritical Markings

I HAVE used the following device in the upper grades to get the pupils acquainted with the markings of letters:— Place on the blackboard a list of consonants, and a few of the vowels. Have pupils make as many words as they can from the list. Require them to mark the vowels properly, and some of the consonants, as c or g. At the end of the given time, it may be fifteen minutes, let the pupils exchange papers and correct each other's work. If a letter has not been properly marked, the word does not count.
The object is to see who gets the largest correct list.
I have found that where the pupils did not know the markings, they acquired such knowledge in a very short time, and that where they already knew them, this was a splendid review.— Selected.