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Play Onwards Volume 1

INTRODUCTION

Special Feature
Invisible ink is what makes this workbook so special. As certain missing words are mechanically
read, students hear but do not see them. And to make the exercises sufficiently easy to be
handled by beginning students, there is a blank space for each missing letter in all the many
sentences provided herewith.

Vocabulary
Volumes 1 & 2 of Play Onwards, like their sister workbooks Volumes 1 & 2 of Work on Words,
contain approximately ninety-five percent of all the everyday, monosyllabic words in the English
language, and often two or more disparate usages of each word. The only single-syllable words
not covered are jargons (i.e., those words unique to a particular trade, profession, or industry)
and a handful of words that the built-in mechanical reader is unable to pronounce correctly.

Phonics
Being that the exercises follow the same format of The Red Well-Read Reader, students will
learn phonics thoroughly. They will see how typical words are formed; to wit, by combining one
of 43 consonants or consonantal blends with one of the 361 roots or families?e.g. ab, ack, and
ad.

Spelling Rules
Without the tedious rules ever being explicitly stated, students will learn them, or rather most
of them. For instance, they will learn when to double the last consonant to write the past tense
or the progressive form of a regular verb, (e.g. lap to lapped or lapping). They will also learn
when not to do this, (e.g. hike to hiked or hiking). Being that only the root words are listed as
choices, students will have to supply the extra ending letters; that is the “ed” or the “ing.”
Occasionally, they also will have to supply a “y” as the last missing letter. In any regard, there
is always one blank space for each missing letter.

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