Note 30 — 19. The Names of the Months

Note 30 (page 42). The antidote for the and habit is not a don't but a do. If pupils are trained to drop the voice at the ends of sentences and to make a pause there, not only will many thoughtless and's remain unspoken, but sentence sense will be developed. Let the class read the January selection in the text, exaggerating the pause at the end of each sentence.