Excerpt from The Teaching of Language in the Primary Grades: Supplement to the Sonoma County Course of Study, Adopted, June, 1904 The method used has been. To bring the proper setting before the child, either actually or in imagi nation. The teacher gives the proper form to be used, and the child imitates her by using the form. The best results will come if the attention of the child is exclusively upon the form we wish to teach him, without too much paraphernalia to divide that atten tion. To illustrate: The child is to be taught to use the form, I saw, in telling about something he has seen before. The teacher produces the proper condi tions by walking to the window, looking out at some object, then returning to her desk, and saying, I saw a man. The child then imitates her. 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.