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O'Shea, William J.; Eichmann, Andrew E. – Charles E. Merrill Company, 1912
This textbook presents a fifth-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, Grade 5, Writing (Composition), English Instruction
O'Shea, William J.; Eichmann, Andrew E. – Charles E. Merrill Company, 1912
This textbook presents a third-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, Grade 3, Writing Instruction, English Instruction
Jeschke, Harry Jewett; Potter, Milton C.; Gillet, Harry O. – Ginn and Company, 1930
This textbook is targeted at educators teaching students in the fifth year seeking to help pupils take an interest in the quality of their English and speak more correctly, more effectively, more agreeably, and to write with due regard for the essentials of good form. Provision is made for individual differences in pupil ability and achievement.…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Textbooks
Jeschke, Harry Jewett; Potter, Milton C.; Gillet, Harry O. – Ginn and Company, 1929
This textbook for the fifth grade seeks to help pupils take an interest in the quality of their English and speak more correctly, more effectively and more agreeably, and to write with due regard for the essentials of good form. Until the language lesson is understood to be distinctively a lesson in craftsmanship, it will contribute little or…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Textbooks
Jeschke, Harry Jewett; Potter, Milton C.; Gillet, Harry O. – Ginn and Company, 1929
This textbook for the sixth grade seeks to help pupils take an interest in the quality of their English and speak more correctly, more effectively and more agreeably, and to write with due regard for the essentials of good form. Until the language lesson is understood to be distinctively a lesson in craftsmanship, it will contribute little or…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 6, Elementary School Students, Textbooks
Jeschke, Harry Jewett; Potter, Milton C.; Gillet, Harry O. – Ginn and Company, 1929
The purpose of this language and grammar book for the seventh grade is to improve the pupil's English. Such improvement means not one achievement but many. It resolves itself in practice into numerous detailed aims and individual lines of instruction, of effort, of exercise, and of progress. In terms of major objectives it includes the attainment…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 7, Middle School Students, Textbooks
Neef, J. – Printed for J. Neef, 1813
This textbook presents lessons in reading and English pronunciation. The alphabetical letters or signs employed in the English language being very complicated figures, it is necessary that children, for a considerable space of time, should be practised in drawing simple geometrical figures before they are taught writing. By this geometrical…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Reading Instruction, English Instruction, Writing Instruction
Badlam, Anna B. – Silver, Burdett and Company, 1889
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…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Textbooks, Spelling, Pronunciation
Beverly, Clara – Atkinson, Mentzer & Company, 1914
This book describes methods that are the outcome of school room practice. They call for cooperation, making every member of the class an active participant in the work in hand, whether it be reading, story reproduction, original composition, or sentence analysis. The book contains suggestions for teachers of both primary and grammar grades. It…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Oral Language, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
Elson, William H.; Runkel, Lura E.; Royster, James F. – Scott, Foresman and Company, 1922
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…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Grade 3, Elementary School Teachers, English Instruction
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
O'Shea, William J.; Eichmann, Andrew E. – Charles E. Merrill Company, 1912
This textbook presents a fourth-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 4
O'Shea, William J.; Eichmann, Andrew E. – Charles E. Merrill Company, 1915
This textbook presents a seventh-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), English Instruction
O'Shea, William J.; Eichmann, Andrew E. – Charles E. Merrill Company, 1912
This textbook presents a sixth-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), English Instruction

Moulton, Dorothy E. – English Journal, 1979
Discusses the history of the author's involvement with books for more than 65 years and with the teaching of English for more than 40 years. (DD)
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Books, English Instruction, Reading