Présentation de l'éditeur
Prefatory Note In my two courses of Reading and Composition I developed a method by which the whole instruction in English was based upon passages from English literature. This method has met with considerable success in the hands of practical teachers, a success which has encouraged me to produce these three little books, which are intended for the use of younger pupils. There is no doubt that to young children who have not yet acquired a genuine taste for literature, pictures and particularly coloured pictures make a stronger appeal than mere written descriptions. Pictures gain at once the interest of the child, and aid him to express thought with ease and fluency. Therefore, in this series I have indicated a method of instruction in English based entirely upon pictures. In selecting illustrations I have kept in view the necessity of choosing those which are likely to prove attractive to the child, and also which enable me to correlate with the teaching of English other subjects of the curriculum, such as History, Geography, and Nature Study. Book I deals largely with the construction of the simple sentence, Book II with the combination of sentences, while Book III endeavours to impart some idea of style in composition. The exercises are constructed in accordance with the Suggestions for Teachers issued by the Board of Education. They are throughout graduated in difficulty, and each set, being also graduated, leads up to some continuous form of prose, at first in the shape of answers to questions, then simple and complex descriptions, and lastly the expansion of essay outlines. While intended to pave the way for my courses of Reading and Composition ,these little books are so planned that they have a separate entity and form a complete course of instruction in themselves. L. M.
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