A brief course in the teaching process

by George D. Strayer

E. L. Thorndike, The Principles of Teaching, Chapter XVI.

APPENDIX

I. THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

By Franklin Thomas Baker, A.M.

I. Historical View of the Subject

1. The Choice of Reading Matter.

1. The school reader an expression of social ideals.

2. German primers and readers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

3. The “moral tales” of the eighteenth century.