Excerpt from Teacher's Manual to Accompany Easy Road to Reading The Easy Road to Reading Primer and First Reader are for the child. Every word on every page is for the child to read. Suggestions for seat work, phonic drill, and other material intended for the teacher are entirely eliminated from the child's book and placed in this Manual, which is the teacher's book. The method by which learning to read is made easy to the child is itself simple and easy of application. The authors have not felt that formal, learned discussions of abstruse pedagogical theories would be of great assist ance to the teacher in her effort to secure practical results in teaching the daily lessons. They have therefore con tented themselves with a brief, informal explanation of the general principles underlying the method, followed at once by detailed suggestions for each of the lessons. These suggestions are definite in character. The authors have not suggested pedagogical truths in a broad, vague manner, leaving the application of them largely to the teacher, but have given, in connection with each lesson, material ample to insure effective results. The teacher may enlarge on-the suggestions given or vary them. Chapter VI of the Manual is devoted to a systematic development of phonics. The phonle scheme is a related' part of the general plan of the book, and is outlined lesson by lesson. The use of perception cards is provided for in the outline of the lessons which constitutes the first part of the Manual. These cards can be secured from the publishers. 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.