An Outline of the General Regulations and Methods of Teaching in the Male National Model Schools, for the Use of the Teachers in Training |
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Page 12 - As it is usually managed, it is a dreadful task indeed to learn, and if possible a more dreadful task to teach to read : with the help of counters, and coaxing, and gingerbread, or by dint of reiterated pain and terror, the names of the...
Page 13 - There are many carefully worded rules in the spelling-books, specifying before what letters and in what situations g shall vary in sound ; but, unfortunately, these rules are difficult to be learned by heart, and still more difficult to understand. These laws, however positive, are not found to be of universal application, or at least, a child has not always wit or time to apply them upon the spur of the occasion. In coming to the words...
Page 6 - To observe themselves, and to impress upon the minds of their pupils, the great rule of regularity and order — A TIME AND A PLACE FOR EVERY THING, AND EVERY THING IN ITS PROPER TIME AND PLACE.
Page 20 - What is usually termed fine Reading, seems to convey in addition to these, a kind of admonition to the hearers, respecting the feelings which the composition ought to excite in them : it appears to say', ' this deserves your admiration ;' ' this is sublime ; ' this is pathetic,
Page 35 - A verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer ; as, I am — I rule — I am ruled.
Page 13 - ... possible in the same circumstances, as in the word though; but now g is to become a silent letter and is to pass incognito, and the child would commit an unpardonable error if he claimed the incognito as his late acquaintance...
Page 25 - ... that the more they read and write, the more likely they will be to remember the combination of letters in words which they have continually before their eyes, or which they feel it necessary to represent to others. When young people begin to write, they first feel the use of spelling, and it is then that they will learn it with most ease and precision. Then the greatest care should be taken to look over their writing, and to make them correct every word in which they have made a mistake; because...
Page 47 - Establishment at convenient times appointed for the purpose. On Sundays they are required to attend their respective places of worship ; and a vigilant superintendence is at all times exercised over their moral conduct.