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  • Practical Lessons in Language

    Document thumbnail: Practical Lessons in Language
    Type:
    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    Copyrighted 1893. The author is credited as Principal of Grammar School No. 3, Brooklyn, NY. The book is meant to cover the last two years of the primary course. Lessons are headed as "Things to Notice" and "Things to Do," while reviews are headed as "Things to Remember." It recommends that the teacher help students correct their writing while they are working on it, as opposed to making corrections after it has been written. Includes illustrations that serve as the subject matter of compositions. Includes lessons on stories for reproduction, supplying suitable words, letter writing, the parts of a statement, joining sentences, reproduction and quotation marks, words used to qualify, and composition exercises. The Schultz Archive copy contains various pages up to page 139. There is no TOC.
    Creator/Author:
    Conklin, Benjamin Y.
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/22/2020
    Date Created:
    1891
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Tarbell's Lessons in Language

    Document thumbnail: Tarbell's Lessons in Language
    Type:
    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    1891 printing of 1891 copyrighted text. The author is credited with a Master of Arts and as Superintendent Public Schools, Providence, R.I. A collection of 343 lessons structured to develop language and grammar skills simultaneously for pupils of the higher grammar grades. Text considers the pupils needs first then that of the teacher followed, lastly, by the needs of the subject. Covers grammar as the science of the sentence and the elements of composition as the art of writing. The grammar part covers includes analysis and punctuation. The composition part covers the forms of epistolary, social, business, and parliamentary writing; it also provides for practice in writing through exercises in the selection and arrangement of words, in description, narration, reproduction, paraphrase, and essay-writing. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 299 page text.
    Creator/Author:
    Tarbell, H. S. (Horace Sumner), 1838-1904
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/14/2020
    Date Created:
    1891
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Introductory Language Work: a simple, varied, and pleasing, but methodical, series of exercises in English to precede the study of technical grammar

    Document thumbnail: Introductory Language Work: a simple, varied, and pleasing, but methodical, series of exercises in English to precede the study of technical grammar
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    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    1891 printing of 1891 copyrighted text. The author is credited with a Master of Arts and as the author of several texts. The preface (A Talk with Teachers) argues that language should be taught directly, systematically, and persistently to students in the primary grades and that a textbook is a necessary tool to supplement oral instruction. It argues against the teaching of spelling and punctuation, technical grammar, pictures for stories, and poetry. Furthermore, excellence in language is attained through observation and practice, the observing of models of writing and the composing of original compositions. It focuses on: the sentence and the paragraph, chief parts and their helpers, the thought and language of the exercises, common errors, letter-writing, and opportunities for work. The Schultz Archive copy is perhaps the complete text. It contains roughly the first 253 pages of the text.
    Creator/Author:
    Reed, Alonzo, -1899
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/11/2020
    Date Created:
    1891
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0