Learning and Using ADVANCED SPELLING

A sampling comparison of the spellings of common words by pupils in grades two to eight of more than forty years ago with those of the present decade favored those of the earlier period. It showed that the percentages of correct spellings of the pupils of the former period were higher on all grade levels than the percentages of correct spellings of pupils of comparable grade levels today. For some words on some grade levels, the correct spellings of the earlier period were more than 50 percentage points higher than the spellings today.

Parents, employers, high-school teachers, and college instructors recognize the low level of spelling achievement today and realize that active measures must be taken to remedy spelling deficiencies and improve spelling standards.
This advanced spelling book is designed to develop the spelling proficiency of individuals in high school, in college, and in life outside the school.

WORDS SELECTED FOR THIS SPELLING BOOK
The words for this book have been selected after a painstaking and thorough study of all valid research on writing vocabulary and spelling errors. Vocabularies of adult writing, of child writ­ing outside the school, of theme studies on elementary and sec­ondary levels, and of error investigations of elementary-school children, of high-school pupils, and of more advanced students have been utilized to compile the lists that make up the lessons in this book