MY FIRST SCHOOL-BOOK. TO TEACH ME ΤΟ READ AND SPELL WORDS, AND UNDERSTAND THEM. We think that nine tenths of the labor and disgust of learning to read may be saved; and that, instead of frowns and tears, the usual harbingers of learning, cheerfulness and smiles may initiate willing pupils in the most difficult of all human attainments. EDGEWORTH. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY T. R. MARVIN. BUMSTEAD'S PRIMARY SCHOOL SERIES. I. — MY LITTLE PRIMER; to teach a few words and the alphabet. The different words are very few, thinly scattered, and oft repeated; just to give the child a start in learning to read and spell II. MY FIRST SCHOOL-BOOK. III. SECOND READING-BOOK in the Primary School, designed to follow the Reading Lessons of "My First School-Book." IV.- THIRD READING-BOOK in the Primary School. V. SPELLING AND THINKING COMBINED; or, the Spelling Book made a Medium of Thought. "In every stage we should avoid, as the bane of good habits of thought, the common use of the NONSENSE COLUMNS of a spelling-book. Nothing more pernicious could be contrived. The use of them prevents thinking, without teaching to spell." THE SCHOOLMASTER, by GEORGE B. EMERSON. VI. TABLE FOR TRAINING THE ORGANS OF SPEECH IN ARTICULATION. A large sheet, about five feet square, intended to be attached to the wall of a school-room. VII. - THE BLACK-BOARD IN THE PRIMARY SCHOOL. A Manual for Teachers, to illustrate some valuable Meth ods of interesting and instructing young Children. VIII. MY FIRST ARITHMETIC. The style of this book is unique; differing essentially from all other Primary Arithme READING TABLE for the youngest scholars. PUNCTUATION TABLE. NUMERATION TABLE. The last three are Wall Tablets. Ar a meeting of the Boston Primary School Committee, held on the 4th instant, it was Voted, That the book called "MY FIRST SCHOOL-BOOK" be introduced into the Primary Schools, for the use of the third and fourth classes. JOSEPH CURTIS, Secretary BOSTON, June 5, 1839. ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by J. F. BUMSTEAD, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. |