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Title: Lippincott's Horn-Ashbaugh Speller
For Grades One to Eight

Author: Ernest Horn
Ernest J. Ashbaugh

Release Date: October 1, 2010 [EBook #33826]

Language: English

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LIPPINCOTT'S
HORN-ASHBAUGH
SPELLER
FOR GRADES ONE TO EIGHT

BY
ERNEST HORN, PH.D.

PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION AND DIRECTOR
OF THE UNIVERSITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

AND

ERNEST J. ASHBAUGH, PH.D.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION AND CHIEF OF THE
BUREAU OF EDUCATIONAL TESTS AND MEASUREMENTS
THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

PHILADELPHIA, LONDON, CHICAGO
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS
PHILADELPHIA, U. S. A.

PREFACE

It is the intention of the authors to include sufficient discussion
and directions to teachers so that this book may be taught with the
highest possible degree of efficiency. Under general directions to
teachers will be found a discussion of those points which concern all
teachers regardless of grade. In addition, preceding the word list for
each grade will be found supplementary directions to aid the teachers
in facing the problems peculiar to that grade.

Special attention is called to the elaborate provision for making the
pupil intelligent and responsible in his attack on his own spelling
problems. This result is achieved by the testing plan which discovers
to the pupil his deficiencies; by the standard scores which enable him
to compare his accomplishment with that of other children; by the
efficient method of study which is provided; and by the unusually
rigorous follow-up work given in the review lessons. The authors
therefore present this book to the pupils and teachers of the United
States as a contribution to the solution of