Spelling is Easy

Spelling is Easy Coronet Instructional Films 11:42:55 Elementary school classroom, older girl giving scientific demonstration w/ jar of foaming liquid (SOF), bottle pops out cork, kids laugh. Teacher asks who’d like to write a report on the experiment - several kids put hands up. 11:43:51 Young boy Tom in classroom after school having trouble writing report - narrator starts talking to him - worried about spelling - CU Tom’s report - narrator points out spelling mistakes. 11:45:15 ‘Rules for learning to spell’ appear on blackboard & narrator takes Tom thru each rule - hear, see, repeat, write & check the word. 11:46:30 Cutaways to people repeating words Tom has trouble with. Copies ‘Vinegar’ from bottle. CU report w/ corrections. Teacher appears, pronounces word ‘procedure’ then vanishes. 11:49:52 Zoom in on shelf w/ dictionaries - Tom checks word. Charts showing ‘Homonyms’. Two kids re-appear at desks practising spelling. Rules disappear from blackboard. Narrator bids farewell. 11:53:07 CU ‘The Hillside Journal’ w/ Tom’s finished report circled; fade to classroom, Tom asks to write another report on science class experiment; teacher expresses surprise at sudden improvement in his spelling and he winks at camera, MCU. The End. Literacy; Grammar; Education; Junior High School; Dialogue; 1940s;