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SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS.

For some lessons the children will require a preparation that will give them information. Such preparations will require the use of appliances. The children should be led to formulate this information in good language, arranged in sequential order. Such repro

ductions should involve the use of the idioms and new words found in the text to be read.

For the reading of some lessons, especial preparation in expression will be required. See pages 43, 82, 140, and others. Nothing but natural talking, the expression of the same or kindred feelings as those represented by the text will fit children to read these lessons properly. Cause the children to feel the proper emotion, then let them talk, after which let them read.

It is assumed that the children will early learn the values of the consonants of the language. This is one of the early steps in learning to read.

With the acquired ability to give the correct sounds of those consonants and combinations of consonants whose values are constant, the child, after the intelligent preparation suggested by the foregoing, will be able profitably to study a lesson as seat work. Such study will be both valuable and interesting to him. Such study should involve the writing of all new words and idioms. The work done by the teacher on the board may be left there for reference while the children are studying their lesson. It is important that the children should learn how to study a reading lesson, should learn how to read for themselves.

Do you think we would sell her? Sell her! Do you ask if we would sell our little sister? Oh, no, no, we will not sell our baby. We love her too much for that.

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Once there was a little boy,

With curly hair and pleasant eye,

A boy who always told the truth,
And never, never told a lie."

It is not right to tell a lie.

The boy or girl who tells a lie wrongs

others and disobeys God.

It is mean to tell a lie.

Don't you

know it is? Who can trust the boy that