Author : Richard Edwards
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 22,68 MB
Release : 2015-07-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781331996071
Book Description
Excerpt from The Analytical Speller: Containing Lists of the Most Useful Words in the English Language, Progressively Arranged and Grouped According to Their Meaning; With Abbreviations, Rules for Capitals, Etc This book is an attempt to substitute intelligent, thoughtful work for the unmeaning drill of the old-fashioned Spelling-books. The spelling lessons, as here given, consist of words related to each other in meaning, and so arranged that even where they are not understood by the children their meaning may be easily learned. The exercises are progressive, beginning with simple thoughts and words, and passing on to more difficult ones, - thus developing the pupil's use of language as his mental powers and ideas are developed. The spelling lesson is an exercise upon which the pupil drills for many years. Whatever it contains, therefore, becomes a fixture in the mind, - it is forever remembered. Even the unmeaning columns of the olden time were thus retained. Who that used the old Webster's spelling-book has forgotten that "Sha-dy" came next after "Ba-ker" in the column? Now, this being so, is it not worth the while to give the matter thus remembered as great a value as possible? Is there not a great gain effected when the words are made to have a meaning to the child? when the word to be spelled is associated with an idea of which he is, or must become, the master? Is it not useful to awaken in this exercise as many as possible of his faculties? Is it not a law of the mind that every faculty employed about the acquisition of a thought is a separate link for holding that thought? Is it not true that a word remembered by its form alone is more imperfectly remembered than one that, in addition to its form, has the association with a living idea, to assist the memory? 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.