A PICTURE STORY—PARTS 1 AND 2
A PICTURE STORY—PARTS 3 AND 4BEGINNERS' BOOK IN LANGUAGE
A BOOK FOR THE THIRD GRADE
BY
H. JESCHKE
JOINT AUTHOR OF "ORAL AND WRITTEN ENGLISH"
BOOK ONE AND BOOK TWO
GINN AND COMPANY
BOSTON-NEW YORK-CHICAGO-LONDON
ATLANTA-DALLAS-COLUMBUS-SAN FRANCISCO
COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY GINN AND COMPANY
ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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PROPRIETORS BOSTON-U.S.A.
PREFACE
How shall we bring it about that children of the third grade speak asspontaneously in the schoolroom as they do on the playground when thegame is in full swing?
How shall we banish their schoolroom timidity and self-consciousness?
How shall we obtain from them a ready flow of thought expressed infitting words?
How shall we interest them in the improvement of their speech?
How shall we inoculate them against common errors in English?
How shall we displace with natural, correct, and pointed writtenexpression the lifeless school composition of the past, the laboriousproduction of which was of exceedingly doubtful educational value andgave pleasure neither to child nor to teacher?
These are some of the questions to which this new textbook for the thirdgrade aims to give constructive answers. Needless to say, much more isrequired in the way of answer than a supply of raw material for languagework or a graded sequence of formal lessons in primary English.
It is the purpose of the present book to provide a series of schoolroomsituations, so built up as to give pupils delightful experiences inspeaking and writing good English. Since one can no more teach withoutthe interest of the pupil than see without light, these situations havefor their content the natural interests of children. They thereforeinclude child life and the heroic aspects of mature life, fairies andfairyland, and the outer world, particularly animal life. Then, each [iv]situation is considerably extended, not only that interest may beconserved but also that it may be cumulative. Instead of the rope ofsand that one finds in the textbook of unrelated assignments, there isoffered here an interwoven unity of nearly a dozen inclusive groups ofinterrelated lessons, exercises, drills, and games. Among these groupsare the fairy group, the Indian group, the fable group, the valenti