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as long as interested. As soon as they can
tell them well, call them nouns. First
teach them the thing and then the name and
of course the right name. If anything is doubtful
don't say any thing about it. Thorough
Nouns: means, give to a child the proportion which
it needs. Don't think you must teach
a child everything. We will go over all again
in First, Second, Third and Fourth Readers.
Do this work that the child may see and
feel the difference between words. Take a week
or two of five minutes a day and have them
work with a snap. Call it the word class.
Children will enjoy it.

Pronouns: He picked it up and put it in his pocket.
He stands for James. In speaking of these
words at first say that they stand for nouns.
Take several days. Take one good simple
sentence and modify it to suit all our purposes.
Hunt up all these words. Be able to select them
quickly. Make up a list of pronouns. Call
these words pronouns or for-nouns but know
them well first. In Third Reader class when
you come out to read tell all the nouns
and pronouns in a certain part of the