Excerpt from A Manual for Teachers of Primary Reading The method of teaching reading presented in this Manual recognizes: (1) that the child must master certain phonic facts before he can have power to solve word problems for himself; (2) that it is not possible to reduce every word in the language to a phonic basis, and that exceptions to phonic rules should be taught as sight words or wholes. It gives the child such mastery over the mechanics of reading that his mind is free to grasp the thought of the sentence when it is presented. It will be seen that this is not a new method. It is rather a new combination - an apt blending - Ofthe strong features of several methods. No teacher need feel in using it that she must throw aside all the good things that her experience has found to be worth keeping. It is comprehensive and has room for all the originality and personal impress that the earnest teacher possesses. In order to refer to vowel and consonant sounds With ease and directness, and in order that the teacher may have no doubt as to the sound value of a phonogram, diacritical marks are used in the Index of the Word List, and occasionally in the Manual. The marks used are from Webster's Dictionary. No diacritical marks should be used in the work with the pupils. 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.