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SPECIAL METHOD
IN PRIMARY READING
SPECIAL METHOD
IN
PRIMARY READING AND ORAL
WORK WITH STORIES
BY
CHARLES A. MCMURRY, PH.D.
DIRECTOR OF PRACTICE DEPARTMENT, NORTHERN ILLINOIS
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, DE KALB, ILLINOIS
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.
1905
_All rights reserved_
COPYRIGHT, 1903.
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped July, 1903; reprinted
April, 1905.
PREFACE
This book attempts the discussion of two very important problems in
primary education. First, the oral work in the handling of stories, and
second, the introduction to the art of reading in the earliest school
work. The very close relation between the oral work in stories and the
exercises in reading in the first three years in school is quite fully
explained. The oral work in story-telling has gained a great importance
in recent years, but has not received much discussion from writers of
books on method.
Following this "Special Method in Primary Reading," a second volume,
called the "Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics
in the Grades of the Common School," completes the discussion of reading
and literature in the intermediate and grammar grades.
Both of the books of Special Method are an application of the ideas
discussed in "The Principles of General Method" and "The Method of the
Recitation."
Still other volumes of Special Method in Geography, History, and Natural
Science furnish the outlines of the courses of study in these subjects,
and also a full discussion of the value of the material selected and of
the method of treatment.
At the close of each chapter and at the end of the book a somewhat
complete graded list of books, for the use of both pupils and teachers,
is given. The same plan is followed in all the books of this series, so
that teachers may be able to supply themselves with the best helps with
as little trouble as possible.
CHARLES A. McMURRY.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I PAGE
THE REASON FOR ORAL WORK IN STORIES 1