This textbook is a second-grade course in arithmetic. While it contains a review of the work of Grade I, pupils who have not had the benefit of a kindergarten training or of Grade I drill will need to have certain principles and definitions more carefully explained. Starting with this knowledge, which is usually given in all Kindergartens, the…

This textbook is a third-grade course in arithmetic. It contains a review of the preceding book, a continuation and extension of the work in the fundamental processes and in fractions, and the introduction of several new principles in their simplest form, as percentage. The exercises are divided into lessons for convenience. Better results will…

This textbook is a third reader with longer words from common vocabulary that pupils should learn to recognize in print as they do in speech. Each reading lesson begins with words in columns intended to be studied for spelling, pronunciation, and meaning before the lesson is read. Sections entitled "How to Read" present the most…

This textbook can be used in a third year classroom to help pupils take an interest in the quality of their English and speak more correctly, more effectively, more agreeably, and to write with due regard for the essentials of good form. Provision is made for individual differences in pupil ability and achievement. This book includes the technique…

This textbook is a third reader. Selections are poems and stories of fairy life intended to spark the pupil's imagination and, in some cases, impart moral values.

This textbook aims to lead the child to love his mother tongue. The lessons give opportunity for children to share their stories, to play games, to dramatize, and to have interesting conversations on things close to child life. This series of readers is the result of schoolroom practice. Every lesson has been developed in actual teaching both by…

This textbook is first in a series of science readers adapted to Secondary Grades comprising pupils who are in their third and fourth years of school work. The lessons are progressive, each one of the series being built on the facts taught in the previous lesson. Moreover, the subject matter--the properties of bodies; the nature, growth, and…

This textbook is a primary-grade reader focusing on silent reading of interesting selections to build control of eye movements that lead to careful silent reading with good comprehension and a long attention span. Silent reading is the complex process of getting thought from the printed page and involves an entirely new pedagogy. In the selection…

This textbook is a primary-grade reader focusing on silent reading of interesting selections to build control of eye movements that lead to careful silent reading with good comprehension and a long attention span. Silent reading is the complex process of getting thought from the printed page and involves an entirely new pedagogy. In the selection…

This textbook is a primary-grade reader focusing on silent reading of interesting selections to build control of eye movements that lead to careful silent reading with good comprehension and a long attention span. Silent reading is the complex process of getting thought from the printed page and involves an entirely new pedagogy. In the selection…

This textbook is a second-year reader. Bearing in mind the fact that only those children who like to read ever become good readers, the author has endeavored so to construct and arrange the several lessons as to make each reading exercise a source of pleasure to all. Illustrations are intended to be valuable aids towards making the reading…

This textbook is a third-year reader. Bearing in mind the fact that only those children who like to read ever become good readers, the author has endeavored so to construct and arrange the several lessons as to make each reading exercise a source of pleasure to all. Illustrations are intended to be valuable aids towards making the reading exercise…

This textbook presents a third-grade composition course stressing the different forms of language exercises--letters, narratives, descriptions, and expositions. This series of books aims to help the teacher by providing a systematic arrangement of subject-matter, thus saving the labor of searching for suitable material and, at the same time,…

The process of teaching the child to read has gone through many stages of progress. Word, sentence, and phonic methods may each contribute to the process, and that undue emphasis on any one of these methods demands too great a sacrifice in quality and interest. The "Merrill Primer" is built on the familiar rhymes of Mother Goose and…

The chief difficulties in teaching a child to read are focused in the Primer (ED622318) and the First Reader. If the teaching in the first year is wisely done, the later work in reading should go forward smoothly and steadily. Every step in this fundamental work must be carefully planned and developed. The First Reader, therefore, should be a…