Primary Methods: A Complete and Methodical Presentation of the Use of Kindergarten Material in the Work of the Primary School, Unfolding a Systematic Course of Manual Training in Connection with Arithmetic, Geometry, Drawing, and Other School Studies

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A.S. Barnes, 1887 - Education, Primary - 166 pages
 

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Page 187 - OILMAN'S FIRST STEPS IN GENERAL HISTORY. iSmo, 385 pp. Cloth . . . . . .75 cents A suggestive outline of great compactness. Each country is treated by itself, and the United States receives special attention. Frequent maps, contemporary events in tables, references to standard works for fuller details, and a minute index constitute the
Page 174 - Embracing valuable information on a thousand topics, communicated in such a manner as at once to relieve the exercise of spelling of its usual tedium, and combine it with instruction of a general character calculated to profit and amuse.
Page 186 - By an authoress well known for the success of her History of the United States. The social life of the English people is felicitously interwoven, as in fact, with the civil and military transactions of the realm. Ricord's History of Rome Possesses the charm of an attractive romance.
Page 174 - Familiar words, grouped with reference to the sameness of sound of syllables differently spelled. Also definitions, complete rules for spelling and formation of derivatives, and exercises in false orthography. 4. Smith's Speller and Definer's Manual...
Page 186 - The plan of this standard work is chronologically exhibited in front of the titlepage ; the Maps and Sketches are found useful assistants to the memory, and dates, usually so difficult to remember, are so systematically arranged as in a great degree to obviate the difficulty. Candor, impartiality, and accuracy, are the distinguishing features of the narrative portion. Willard's Universal History. The most valuable features of the " United States
Page 176 - Grammar, though the latter is still furnished upon order. The Normal is an entirely new treatise. It is a full exposition of the system as described below, with all the most recent improvements.
Page 186 - Possesses the charm of an attractive romance. The Fables with which this history abounds are introduced in such a way as not to deceive the inexperienced, while adding materially to the value of the work as a reliable index to the character and institutions, as well as the history of the Roman people.

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