On pages 27-28 and 65-66 are lists of words for review. These are
selected from “The One Thousand Commonest Words” as found by Dr.
Ayres, and are here used by permission. Without special study, at
least seventy-nine per cent of those given on pages 27-28 were spelled
correctly by the fifth-grade children in eighty-four cities in the United
States, and at least seventy-nine per cent of those given on pages 65-66
were spelled correctly by the sixth-grade children in the same schools.
Careful teaching should give a much higher percentage.