ERIC ED623260: Beginners' Book in Language. A Book for the Third Grade

ERIC ED623260: Beginners' Book in Language. A Book for the Third Grade

Author: ERIC

Year: 1918

This textbook for the third grade provides a series of schoolroom situations to give pupils experiences in speaking and writing good English. The situations include child life and the heroic aspects of mature life, fairies and fairyland, and the outer world, particularly animal life. Then, each situation is considerably extended, not only that interest may be conserved but also that it may be cumulative. This textbook offers an interwoven unity of nearly a dozen inclusive groups of interrelated lessons, exercises, drills, and games. Among these groups are the fairy group, the Indian group, the fable group, the valentine group, and the circus group. These groups or situations call for much physical activity, pantomime, and dramatization. They provide for story-telling of great variety; for instruction and practice in punctuation, capitalization, and other points of form; for habit-creating drills in good English; for correct-usage games; for simple letter writing; for novel exercises in book making; and for the improvement by the pupils themselves of their oral and written composition.