Excerpt from Modern Word Book for Primary Grades: An Elementary Course in Phonetics and Spelling Practically all modern Courses of Study for the primary grades outline drill on phonics or the elementary sounds of the English language. These drills are helpful to all classes of pupils, but are especially significant for children whose vernacular is not English. In all these cases it is highly important that the children shall have the benefit of drill on the phonic elements as early as possible in school life, and thus secure facility in their use. Other aims of phonic drill are, (a) the correction of defects in the organs of speech while pupils are still young, (b) the development of the power of correct pronunciation. The basis for these drills is found in the exercises of The Mod ern Word Book, which includes a vocabulary of nearly one thousand common words. 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.