Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Elson Grammar School Reader, Vol. 3
The biographies are intended to acquaint the children with the personal characteristics and lives of the authors, making them more interesting and real to the children, giving them the human touch and incidentally furnishing helpful data for interpreting their writings. The Biographical Introduction to Part III gives a related story of the lives of the American authors from whose writings selections have been made in this book. Helps to Study include questions and notes designed to stimulate inquiry on the part of pupils and to suggest fruitful lines of study. Only a few points are suggested, to indicate the way, and no 'attempt is made to cover the ground in all directions; this remains for the teacher to do.
It is not expected that the order of selections will be followed. On the contrary, each teacher will follow the order which will best suit his own plans and purposes. While there is much material in the book that will reenforce lessons in history, geog raphy, and nature study, yet it is not for this that these selec tions should be studied, but rather for the pleasure that comes from reading beautiful thoughts beautifully expressed. The reading lesson should therefore be a study of literature, and it should lead the children to find beauty of thought and feeling, fitness in figures of speech, and delicate shades of meaning in words. Literature is an art, and the chief aim of the reading lesson is to discover and interpret its art qualities. In this way children learn how to read books and are enabled to appreciate the literary treasures of the race. The business of the reading book is to furnish the best available material for this purpose.
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