ALDINE

LANGUAGE

METHOD

PART ONE

A Manual for Teachers Using
First Language Book

BY

FRANK E. SPAULDING

SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, CLEVELAND, OHIO

AND

CATHERINE T. BRYCE,

ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, CLEVELAND, OHIO

NEWSON & COMPANY
NEW YORK

593550

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COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY

NEWSON & COMPANY.

All rights reserved.

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II. Teaching Pupils to Study

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Conversation: Questions and Answers

IV. Dramatizing the Fable, "Grand Tusk and Nimble"

V. Oral Reproduction of the Story

XIII. Getting the Story from the Poem, "The Mountain

and the Squirrel "

XIV. Telling the Story of the Poem

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IV. Oral Reproduction of the Story of the Linden
Telling True Stories .

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VI. Sentences, Capitals, Statements, and Periods
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Copying Sentences to Learn the Use of Capitals and

VIII. Studied Dictation for Drill in Use of Capitals and

IX. Unstudied Dictation to Test the Use of Capitals
and Period

X. Questions and the Question Mark .

XI. Copying Questions to Learn the Use of Capitals
and the Question Mark

XII. Using Capitals and the Period

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XVI. Studying the Poem, "Spring Waking"
XVII. Part Reading and Dramatizing the Poem
XVIII. Learning to Tell a Story

XIX. Oral Reproductions

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I. Reading the Story, "Mabel and the Fairy Folk"

II. Dramatizing "Mabel and the Fairy Folk"

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XI. Picture Stories

Supplementary Work

XII. More Picture Stories

XIII. Telling True Stories

XIV. A Class Exercise in Written Reproduction

Supplementary Work .

XV. Copying Story from the Board

I. Study and Oral Reproduction of the Fable, "The

IV. The Use of Capitals in Writing the Names of Per-

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The Use of Two, Too, and To

Supplementary Work.

X. Dictation to Drill and Test the Use of Too, To,

XI. Enlarging a Story for Dramatizing; Pupils' Prepara-

XII. Enlarging a Story for Dramatizing; Class Exercise

XIII. Dramatizing the Story, "The First Buttercups

Supplementary Work.

XIV. Picture Stories

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II. Studying the Story, "The Little White Flower"