Words Used in This Notebook

A few terms turn up more than once in these pages. Here is what they mean here.

Objective: the one thing the lesson should make possible by the end
Materials: whatever has to be on the table before practice starts
Spacing: practicing a little on many days instead of a lot on one
Retrieval: pulling something out of memory rather than reading it again
Report card: three sentences written on the last day of the month
Rehearsal card: the eight evening lines from lesson three
Teach-back: explaining this week's skill to a listener, or a chair
Top line: the first line of a monthly page, where the skill is named in plain words
Second chair: the seat pulled out for a listener, even when nobody is in it