Graded Lessons in English

+Teacher+.-I will pronounce these three sounds very slowly and distinctly, thus: b-u-d. Notice, it is the power, or sound, of the letter, and not its name, that I give. What did you hear?+Pupil+.-I heard three sounds.+T.-+Give them. I will write on the board, so that you can see them, three letters-b-u-d. Are these letters, taken separately, signs to you of anything?+P.-+Yes, they are signs to me of the three sounds that I have just heard.