Aldine First Language Book (Classic Reprint): A Manual for Teachers: A Manual for Teachers (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Frank E. Spaulding

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330631021 ISBN 13: 9781330631027

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

A practical, classroom-tested guide to teaching language and storytelling. This manual supports teachers in building foundational language skills through structured, engaging activities. It emphasizes reading aloud, oral reproduction, dramatizing, and descriptive work, organized into clear chapters with progressive lessons.

Inside you’ll find a complete framework for teaching early language, including techniques for guiding discussion, encouraging student storytelling, and using picture stories and poems to reinforce reading and writing. The book also covers the use of capitals, punctuation, and dictation, with plentiful suggestions for supplementary activities that extend learning beyond the core lessons.

• A step-by-step approach to reading, conversation, and oral reproduction of stories


• Structured activities around picture stories, fables, poems, and memorization


• Guidance on developing writing skills, including capitalization, punctuation, and dictation


• Ideas for classroom routines, self-confidence, and student originality

Ideal for teachers of primary language development, this edition provides a complete toolkit to foster confident readers, speakers, and writers.

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Product Description

Excerpt from Aldine First Language Book: A Manual for Teachers

A traveler crossing a plain in India saw at a distance a slave who was busy drawing a bucket from a well. The traveler approached the well, hoping to get a drink. On reaching it he saw, to his surprise, that the bucket came to the top of the well empty. Again and again the slave let down the bucket, and ever it came to the top empty.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330631021
• ISBN 13: 9781330631027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288