The Standard Second Reader: Containing Introductory Exercises in Articulation, an Explanatory Index, Reading Lessons, &cJ.L. Shorey, 1868 - 216 pages |
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Page iii
... teacher writes on the black - board the successive letters form- ing a word , the pupil telling the teacher what letters to put down . When the word is finished , the teacher asks the class , " Is this word correct ? " All are eager to ...
... teacher writes on the black - board the successive letters form- ing a word , the pupil telling the teacher what letters to put down . When the word is finished , the teacher asks the class , " Is this word correct ? " All are eager to ...
Page iv
... teacher's di- rection . The books are then laid aside , and the teacher commences the task of probing the pupil's memory , by reading sentence after sentence from the exercise , omitting one or more words , or , it may be , half - words ...
... teacher's di- rection . The books are then laid aside , and the teacher commences the task of probing the pupil's memory , by reading sentence after sentence from the exercise , omitting one or more words , or , it may be , half - words ...
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... teacher gives a slight explanation of the sun shining continually at one place or other , so as to correct the childish supposition that it goes to bed , or sinks into the sea , at night . ] 66 By this method of omitting words , of ...
... teacher gives a slight explanation of the sun shining continually at one place or other , so as to correct the childish supposition that it goes to bed , or sinks into the sea , at night . ] 66 By this method of omitting words , of ...
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... teacher than the pupil . Until the eye has been made thoroughly familiar with the printed forms of words , it may ... teachers seems to be , that the tendency in our elementary books is to underrate the intelligence of the child . It has ...
... teacher than the pupil . Until the eye has been made thoroughly familiar with the printed forms of words , it may ... teachers seems to be , that the tendency in our elementary books is to underrate the intelligence of the child . It has ...
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... teachers mainly . Figures after words refer to the correspond- ing number of numbered paragraphs in Part I. The letters EI , after a word , refer to it in the Explanatory Index . THE ELEMENTARY SOUNDS , ETC. THE learner should be made ...
... teachers mainly . Figures after words refer to the correspond- ing number of numbered paragraphs in Part I. The letters EI , after a word , refer to it in the Explanatory Index . THE ELEMENTARY SOUNDS , ETC. THE learner should be made ...
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a-bout a-gain accent acute accent asked at-ten'tion Aunt Mary beau'ti-ful birds boat bread bright brother but'ter-fly cage called cat'er-pil-lars Charles child cold CONSONANT COMBINATIONS CONSONANT SOUNDS dear DIPHTHONGS doll earth Edwin elementary sound Emily Emma Exercises eyes father feath'ers flowers friends garden give glad grave accent green arbor happy hear heard Henry hoop rolled hurt in'to inflection John John Ray Kate keep klst knst laughed lesson LIGHTHOUSE liquid consonant little girl live look Lucy man'y morn'ing moth'er mother nasal consonant nest never once pict'ure pronunciation Ralph re-plied rhymes rnst robin roses school-mistress silent silent letters sister sleep snow soon spell story straw'ber-ries syllable teacher tell thou thought told took trees unaccented vocal vowel walked warm wasps win'dow winter Wippit wish words ΕΙ
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Page 136 - Favors. 1 WHEN all thy mercies, O my God ! My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I 'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.
Page 212 - Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: so shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Page 213 - He taught me also, and said unto me, 'Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
Page 124 - A rose's brief, bright life of joy, Such unto him was given ; — Go ! thou must play alone, my boy ! Thy brother is in heaven.
Page 128 - THE NORTH WIND DOTH BLOW he north wind doth blow, And we shall have snow, And what will poor Robin do then, Poor thing? He'll sit in a barn, And keep himself warm, And hide his head under his wing, Poor thing.
Page 214 - But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Page 58 - THE USE OF FLOWERS. GOD might have bade the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak tree, and the cedar tree, Without a flower at all.
Page 212 - Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes : fear the Lord, and depart from evil.
Page 93 - Come up, come up, for the world is fair, Where the merry leaves dance in the summer air !" And the birds below give back the cry, " We come, we come, to the branches high...
Page 213 - Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; And the years of thy life shall be many.