Excerpt from A Manual in Elementary English, Vol. 1: To Accompany Elementary English Book One The purpose of this Manual is to help the teacher to use Hodge and Lee's Elementary English, Book One, in the most effective way in the classroom. The Manual aims to accomplish this purpose in two ways: first, by showing the teacher how to use the material in the textbook to the best advantage; and second, by providing additional material with which the teacher may supplement a lesson in the textbook as best seems to meet the needs of her particular class. The Manual shows the teacher how to make the best use of the material in the text in the following ways. 1. By suggesting means of development, particularly in the early lessons; that is, methods of inductive development, mentioning definite things which the teacher can do or say to bring out the topic under discussion - things which cannot very well be included in a text intended for the pupils. 2. By pointing out the purpose of the lesson. Sometimes a busy teacher misses the most important point of a lesson, and sometimes she fails to see that a lesson can be used to bring out more than one point. The Manual, therefore, presents to the teacher the aim which she is to keep constantly in mind during the lesson; or it presents various aims from which the teacher can choose the one best adapted to her class. 3. By emphasizing the points which need special drill. Some phases of a topic will always require more stress than others. The Manual indicates the points which need drill and the points with which children usually have no difficulty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.