Fact · Dictation
In Mason's dictation lesson, the teacher is advised to be ready with slips of stamp-paper to cover a wrong word, so that its image may be erased as far as possible.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“it is well worth while for the teacher to be on the watch with slips of stamp-paper to put over the wrong word, that its image may be erased as far as possible”
Home Education (Home Education Series, Volume 1), Charlotte M. Mason, Project Gutenberg, eBook 71087, 1886, Chapter XII, Steps of a Dictation Lesson.
Open the original- What it measures
- Mason's advice for the step after the dictation, when an error has been made in the writing.
- What it does not show
- Mason's advice from her own lessons. It is not a tested method for correcting spelling.