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    Brooks's Readers: First Year
    Brooks's Readers: First Year
    Brooks's Readers: First Year
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    Brooks's Readers: First Year

    By Stratton D. (Stratton Duluth) Brooks

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Brooks's Readers - Stratton D. (Stratton Duluth) Brooks

      Project Gutenberg's Brooks's Readers: First Year, by Stratton D. Brooks

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      Title: Brooks's Readers: First Year

      Author: Stratton D. Brooks

      Release Date: October 30, 2012 [EBook #41243]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BROOKS'S READERS: FIRST YEAR ***

      Produced by Paul Marshall, Larry B. Harrison and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      BROOKS'S READERS

      FIRST YEAR

      BY

      STRATTON D BROOKS

      SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

      NEW YORK · CINCINNATI · CHICAGO

      AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY

      Copyright, 1906, by

      AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY.

      Copyright, 1907, Tokyo.

      BROOKS'S READERS, FIRST YEAR.

      CONTENTS

      The sole purpose of this book is to help the children to learn to read. While it may ultimately lead to the acquisition of knowledge concerning many subjects, its present aim is only to make reading easy. The lessons are, therefore, on subjects familiar to every child. The words are such as children habitually use in conversation; they are introduced gradually, and as a rule are repeated many times. Since proficiency in reading is best attained by much practice, care has been taken to present as large an amount as possible of interesting matter which the child can readily master. Every line is for the pupil to read. The stories are so constructed as to encourage and secure naturalness of expression without the intervention of rules or formal drills. The gradation both in thought and in expression is easy and natural.

      Although the learning of words by much repetition and familiarity with their forms is an essential feature of this book, its foundation is nevertheless phonetic. Yet, for the sake of leaving it perfectly adaptable to any method of teaching, the phonetic basis has not been emphasized. The systematic introduction of words which may serve as key-words for the acquisition of others containing similar phonetic elements has been carefully observed, and it is believed that this is the natural method untrammeled by any artificial classification.

      As further aids toward making the child's first reading lessons easy, the sentences are short. There are no broken lines in the first hundred pages. Indentations help the young reader to keep the place. There are no interfering illustrations in the text. Each story is complete without turning a leaf.

      Grateful acknowledgments are extended to Miss Frances Lilian Taylor of Galesburg, Illinois, to Mr. W. J. Button of Chicago, and to Miss Matilda Mitchell, primary teacher, Phillips Brooks School, Boston, for valuable suggestions and assistance.

      SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS

      As stated on the preceding page, the foundation of this work is phonetic. The author believes that children may profitably learn many words without reference to their phonetic composition, and that among these certain key-words should be selected from which the elementary sounds of the language may be developed. These elements will give the pupils the power of acquiring new words. For example, observe the following key-words and the sounds developed from them:—

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