This textbook is is designed to be read after "Stories of Child Life, Book II." It deals with the common experience of most children who have been in school one year, and is therefore within their comprehension. The new words are introduced so gradually, and repeated so frequently, that the children, while reading the book, will add…

Reading is an important part of the modern child's environment. The number of things one must know about in order to understand this world has been enormously increased. No one can hope to learn of them all through first-hand experiences. Printed matter, which preserves and facilitates widespread distribution of knowledge, becomes a necessity. To…

During the twentieth century, major changes occurred in conception of arithmetic as a school subject. These changes resulted from both the study of arithmetic itself and from influences from movements and developments outside the subject matter; and they have affected both the content of arithmetic and the methodology of presenting that content to…

This is intended to be a how-to-do guide for the elementary classroom teacher whose principal has recently said, "We usually teach more science. You know our children are living in a scientific age." It's for teachers who want to learn some down-to-earth things about how to begin to teach science if they don't know much subject matter,…

This teacher's manual represents the first of a three-book series. It is written for third grade educators. The arrangement of lessons allows flexibility and enables the teacher to repeat lessons when necessary and to review thoroughly any exercise in which pupils need additional practice. The Manual aims to help educators make their teaching more…

This textbook is a teacher's manual for numbers and arithmetic. The oral lessons in number presented in this manual are illustrative lessons for the guidance of teachers. The exercises are given in detail, to indicate clearly the nature and scope of the instruction which should be given each year. This manual also contains numerous blackboard and…

This book is intended for supplementary reading in the elementary school. It is written in non-technical language, and the effort has been made to connect with the history enough of the human element to make it more interesting than any mere recital of facts. With it there is also joined something of the history of writing materials, this being…

This textbook is part of a series designed to give an elementary school child all the arithmetical power necessary to cope with the situations of common everyday life. This book covers fundamental elements of arithmetical manipulation and thought. Thus, a child who goes no farther than the fourth or fifth grade will be so familiar with essentials…

In April, 1919, at the request of the Board of Education of Memphis, Tennessee, the United States Commissioner of Education submitted the conditions on which the Bureau of Education would make a survey of the public school system of that city. This study of the Memphis schools is intended to be a study of policies and practices; not of persons.…

This bulletin is for those who sincerely want to understand the nature of a modern elementary school program. It presents a point of view, offers many illustrations of what happens in a classroom in the course of a school day, and interprets what children do, say, and learn as they work together with their teacher. Education should consist of…

Twenty years ago no professional training of university grade existed in this country to prepare teachers of mathematics for secondary schools. At that time the young teacher's sole preparation for his work was the taking of as many academic courses in mathematics as possible, plus, in some instances, a course on the history of education or some…

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.…

This textbook is a elementary grade reader that contains 43 lessons. A list of words to be taught are presented at the beginning of each lesson.

This textbook is a elementary grade reader that contains 44 lessons. A list of words to be taught are presented at the beginning of each lesson. [For "Longmans' 'Ship' Literary Readers. Book I," see ED623280.]

This textbook is a elementary grade reader that contains 60 lessons. A list of words to be taught are presented at the beginning of each lesson. [For "Longmans' 'Ship' Literary Readers. Book II," see ED623281.]