LESSON 12
SUSIE SUNBEAM
WORD LIST
brightness pleasant learned dress
playmates unkind ragged word
questions smiling crowed child
Sunbeam cheered Susie gave
gladness unless name gate
1. Susie Sunbeam was not her real name; that was Susan Brown. But every one called her Susie Sunbeam, because she had such a sweet, smiling face, and always brought brightness with her when she came.
2. Her grandfather first gave her this name, and it seemed to fit the little girl so nicely that soon it took the place of her own.
3. Even when a baby, Susie laughed and crowed from morning till night. No one ever heard her cry unless she was sick or hurt.
4. When she had learned to walk, she loved to go about the house and get things for her mother, and in this way save her as many steps as she could.
5. She would sit by her mother's side for an hour at a time, and ask her ever so many questions, or she would take her new book and read.
6. Susie was always pleasant in her play with other children. She never used an unkind word, but tried to do whatever would please her playmates best.
7. One day, a poor little girl with a very ragged dress was going by and Susie heard some children teasing her and making fun of her.
8. She at once ran out to the gate, and asked the poor little girl to come in. “What are you crying for? ” Susie asked.
9. “Because they all laugh at me, ” she said.
10. Then Susie took the little girl into the house. She cheered her up with kind words, and gave her a nice dress and a pair of shoes.
11. This brought real joy and gladness to the poor child, and she, too, thought that Susie was rightly called Sunbeam.
STUDY GUIDE
A. Sound Work—Colour code the words by writing the consonants in red and the vowels in blue.
brightness ________________
playmates __________________
pleasant __________________
questions ___________________
gladness __________________
unkind _____________________
B. Word Work—Find and circle the word that is spelled incorrectly and correct it on the line provided.
1. She cheared her up with kind words. _________
2. A poor little girl with a very raged dress was going by. _________
3. Susie Sunbeam was not her real naim. _________
4. She had such a sweet, smelling face. _________
5. Susie laughed and crode from morning till night. _________
C. Sentence Work—Put the words in the sentence in the correct order to make a sentence from your lesson.
1. heard No her unless she one sick ever or was hurt cry .
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2. always other children Susie was play her with in pleasant .
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3. children her making fun Susie some heard and her of teasing .
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4. girl little house the into took Then Susie the .
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5. “ crying What for? are ” you Susie asked .
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D. Picture Work—Write a sentence using some of your list words to describe the picture in this lesson.
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