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Ginn and Company, 1930
This teachers' manual is to be used with the textbook "Better English: Grade Eight" by Jeschke, Potter, and Gillet. It includes notes that explain briefly the first principles of language study and teaching, and suggestions for the conduct of the individual lessons.
Descriptors: Teaching Guides, English Instruction, Grade 8
Driggs, Howard R. – University Publishing Company, 1922
This textbook is for use in an eighth-grade English course. It serves as a brief course in live, practical grammar, intended primarily for use in the grammar grades or junior high school. The subject is divided into three main parts as follows: (1) studies in Sentence Structure, applied through exercises in sentence building; (2) the Parts of…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Grade 8, English Instruction, Elementary Education
O'Shea, William J.; Eichmann, Andrew E. – Charles E. Merrill Company, 1915
This textbook presents an eighth-grade composition course stressing the different forms of language exercises--letters, narratives, descriptions, and expositions. This series of books aims to help the teacher by providing a systematic arrangement of subject-matter, thus saving the labor of searching for suitable material and, at the same time,…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Grade 8
Cabell, Elvira Daniel; Freeman, Virginia Winchester – William F. Roberts & Company, 1911
This English textbook is designed for the seventh and eighth grades of the elementary school. Like Book One (ED623274) of the same series, it lays stress on spoken language and aims throughout rather to lead the pupils to see the value of correct and accurate language and desire to use it, than formally to cover any mapped-out field of knowledge.…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 7, Grade 8, Elementary School Students
Scott, Fred Newton; Southworth, Gordon A. – Benj. H. Sanborn Company, 1906
This series of "Lessons in English" comprises two books. Book I (ED622250), intended to be used within the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, covers either two or three years, according to the amount of time allowed for language work, the age of the pupils, and their previous training. Book II contains a systematic course in grammar…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Textbooks, Grade 7, Grade 8
Scott, Fred N.; Southworth, Gordon A. – Benj. H. Sanborn Company, 1916
This series of "Lessons in English" comprises two books. Book I (ED622252) is intended to be used within the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. Book II is intended to cover the work of the seventh and eighth grades. It seeks to create a liking for good literature by presenting worthy selections to be read, studied, copied, and…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Textbooks, Grade 7, Grade 8
Elson, William H.; Marsh, George L.; Royster, James F. – Scott, Foresman and Company, 1927
This textbook covers two years' work intended for grades seven and eight. The book is divided into approximately 150 carefully planned lessons for each year's work. These lessons are grouped into chapters, each composed of a series of related units that center on a common theme. The material on which conversation and written exercises are based…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Textbooks, Lesson Plans, Oral Language
Brothers of the Christian Schools, 1930
This textbook is the third of a three-book series on English for the use of elementary parochial schools. These books are based on the requirements in English of the Regents of the University of the State of New York and of the New York City Schools and contain the grade matter called for in English of the syllabi of the parochial schools of most…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Textbooks, Grade 7, Grade 8
Kimball, Lillian G. – American Book Company, 1911
This textbook book is an English course intended for use during the seventh and eighth grades and provides for study along both lines of language work, grammar and composition. The book includes a section on dictionary use. The final chapter is devoted to word analysis and was designed especially for the benefit of that great majority of grammar…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Textbooks, Teaching Methods, Grade 7
Kimball, Lillian G. – American Book Company, 1911
This textbook book is an English course intended for use during the seventh and eighth grades and provides for study along both lines of language work, grammar and composition. The book includes a section on dictionary use. The final chapter is devoted to word analysis and was designed especially for the benefit of that great majority of grammar…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Language Arts, Grammar, Writing (Composition)
Beverly, Clara – Atkinson, Mentzer & Company, 1914
The fundamental idea of "Oral English" Books I and II is "appeal to the ear." In many books on oral English, both the eye and the ear are appealed to at the same time. In this book the first appeal is to the ear alone. Contents include 24 fifth-grade lessons; 23 sixth-grade lessons; 30 seventh-grade lessons; and 40 eighth-grade…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Oral Language, Grade 5, Grade 6