Beginners' Book in Language. A Book for the Third Grade

62. Addressing Letters

Reading edition

If you send your invitations by mail, you will need to know how to write the addresses on the envelopes. Perhaps you can learn this most quickly by carefully copying addresses that are correctly written. Before copying them you should read them with care. Notice every capital letter and punctuation mark.

Oral Exercise. Read the name of the person to whom each of the following envelopes is addressed. Is it placed nearer the top or the bottom edge of the envelope? Is it nearer the right or the left edge of the envelope? Is it placed exactly in the middle of the envelope? Is the second line of the address exactly under the first line? Is the third line exactly under the second line?

Illustration from Beginners' Book in Language. A Book for the Third Grade

Written Exercise. 1. Draw lines to mark off an envelope on your paper. Then copy the first of the addresses above. Mark off another envelope, and copy the second address.[72]

2. Cut figures of paper the size and shape of an envelope, and on each write one of the following addresses:

1. The address of your father

2. The address of your mother

3. Your own address

4. The address of a friend not in the class

5. The address of a friend who is a classmate

Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · Note 72 (page 154). While some pupils are copying at their desks, others may copy at the board. The latter will write copies for class criti