Excerpt from Hints on Language: In Connection With Sight-Reading and Writing in Primary and Intermediate Schools Language-exercise is now found on the pro gramme of most Primary Schools, from the lowest grade 'upwards The absence of a text - book, how ever, on a subject which must be taught orally, makes instruction unsystematic and often unsuc cessful. In order to suggest a method of graded class-work, which shall include under the head of Language whatever is taught in reading, writing, form, color, and number, the author offers the fol lowing Hints to the profession, on the basis of experiments already attempted by teachers Whose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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