PREFACE
CHILDREN love action, and learn most rapidiy
through their chosen activities. The word of most
content for the child is the verb. The Action Primer
abounds in verbs. The illustrations are pictures of
children and animals in lively action. Many of the
actions can be performed. in the class room, still fur-
ther enlisting the glad coöperation of the child in
his first reading lessons. "Che demands of the dy-
namic side of education thus met, and the text
speaking the child’s own favorite and most familiar
thoughts, the reading period may be a happy and a
wholesome one from the first.
The Action Primer provides a progressive text,
introducing not too many new words and reviewing
sufficiently. It prescribes no method of teaching,
but recommends the sentence and word methods for
the first lessons and some application of phonetics as
soon as the child has learned words enough to illus-
trate any simple phonetic principle. For this pur
pose it is best used in connection with such reading