Read this and then write the answers. Read it again as often as you need
to.
It may seem at first thought that every boy and girl who goes to school
ought to do all the work that the teacher wishes done. But sometimes
other duties prevent even the best boy or girl from doing so. If a boy's
or girl's father died and he had to work afternoons and evenings to earn
money to help his mother, such might be the case. A good girl might let
her lessons go undone in order to help her mother by taking care of the
baby.
1. What are some conditions that might make even the best boy leave
school work unfinished?............................................
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2. What might a boy do in the evenings to help his family?.........
3. How could a girl be of use to her mother?.......................
4. Look at these words: _idle, tribe, inch, it, ice, ivy, tide, true,
tip, top, tit,
tat, toe._
Cross out every one of them that has an _i_ and has not any _t_ (T) in
it.