Bolenius Emma M. First-Grade Manual: A Help-Book for Teachers

Boston: Houghton Mifflion Company, 1923. — 461 p.This course in first-grade reading has its roots in the author’s love of children and her keen interest in classroom problems. She has endeavored to approach the matter of primarily reading both from the standpoint of the latest investigations in primary reading and also through the eyes of the child himself. She has also kept in mind the handicaps of environment, lack of experience of many teachers, over-large classes, and other features that play such a strong part in determining the success or failure of a teacher’s work. This course, therefore, is built primarily for the child. It is built secondarily to aid the teacher to do well a task that in itself is tremendous - that of giving the child control of the process: that is basal in all of his other school work. The recent investigations in the field of primary reading - and of all school reading - have been most significant. The author has made a I careful study of the latest thought on primary reading as given in reports, I investigations, courses of study, surveys, and books by experts. More over there is not a suggestion in this book that has not been tried out or I submitted to the approval of expert teachers of primary reading.