Excerpt from Comly's Spelling and Reading Book: With Notes for Parents and Teachers; Adapted to the Use of Public Schools, and Private or Family Instruction As spelling is the reading of letters, and forming words by the combination of their various sounds pronounced in rapid suc cession, so reading 1s the mental or silent spelling and vocal pro nunciation of words, as seen by the eye. The questions are in tended to embrace the reading of words, as well as Spelling them, from the first combinations of two letters, through all the cessive lessons in Spelling and reading. The teacher may vary the questions, and 1ncrease or diminish them, as appears requisite. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.