... Aldine Language Method, Part One: A Manual for Teachers Using the First Language Book, Part 1 |
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actors Æsop answer attention better called capital to begin center of interest chapter chil child children tell comma complete story copy correctly definite dictation exercise directed dren dwarfs elves Encourage errors exact words exclamation mark exer exercise expression fairy Fairy Queen Fairyland feel give given Grand Tusk habit help the children language last lesson learned Let the children little boy little plant Little Red Hen Mabel memorizing merely mistakes Monday's child mother mouse necessary oral reproduction original fables papers paragraph Perhaps Picture Stories play possible preparation pupils correct pupils write purpose question mark quotation marks Read the story Roman numeral Santa Claus sentence snowdrop spell stanza statement studied dictation study the lesson sugges suggestions Supplementary teach teacher tell the story tence things thought tion told tree Tusk and Nimble understand water lily written
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Page 233 - In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me in the street. And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky is clear and blue, And I should like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day?
Page 156 - You are in the china closet!" He would cry, and laugh with glee — It wasn't the china closet; But he still had Two and Three. "You are up in papa's big bedroom, In the chest with the queer old key!
Page 49 - When this answer, which the teacher must exact, has been made by the child, "A capital letter, because the first word of every sentence should begin with a capital letter," the teacher says,
Page 171 - Monday's child is fair of face/ Tuesday's child is full of grace/ Wednesday's child is full of woe/ Thursday's child has far to go/ Friday's child is loving and giving/ Saturday's child works hard for a living/ But the child that is born on the Sabbath Day/ Is bonny, and blithe, and good, and gay.
Page 205 - Use the comma (a) to separate the name of the person addressed from the rest of the sentence ; as, Mary, come to me.
Page 268 - WHEN to the flowers — so beautiful — The Father gave a name, Back came a little blue-eyed one (All timidly it came) And standing at...
Page 114 - To secure this perfect, understanding, supplement, if necessary, the questions in the pupils' book with questions that will bring the most detailed and definite answers possible. Your questions, at first, must be as definite, as this : Is any one speaking? (Insist on the answer " yes " or "no.") Who is speaking? What does he say? Put your fingers around what he says. What do we call those words? What marks are around them? Point to those marks and tell their name. What mark is used to separate the...
Page 268 - THE FORGET-ME-NOT When to the flowers so beautiful The Father gave a name, There came a little blue-eyed one — All timidly it came — And standing at the Father's feet, And gazing in His face, It said with low and timid voice, And yet with gentle grace, "Dear Lord, the name thou gavest me, Alas, I have forgot.
Page 147 - I won't;" and the pig said, " I won't." "When she came back with the flour, she said, "Who will make this flour into bread?" The rat said, "I won't;" the cat said, "I won't;" and the pig said, " I won't." The little red hen said, " I will, then;" and she did. When the bread was done, the little red hen said, " Who will eat this bread ?" The rat said, "I will;" the cat said, "I will;" and the pig said, "I will.
Page 206 - And, grandmother, what long ears you have ! " "The better to hear you, my dear." "But, grandmother, what great eyes you have ! " "The better to see you, my dear.