The action primer

Baker, Thomas O.

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Persistent identifier:: PPN1736876163

URN:: urn:nbn:de:0220-gd-20460591

Title:: The action primer

Shelfmark:: USA E-36(1,06)

Author:: Baker, Thomas O.

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: American Book Company

Document type:: Monograph

Collection:: USA

Publication year:: 1906

Edition title:: [Electronic ed.]

Copyright:: Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien | Georg-Eckert-Institut

Language:: English

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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

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