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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAP. XVI. ELEMENTARY. COURSE. Bible training, Gallery secular lessons, and Moral training, to which we have already adverted, and which may be stated as peculiar to the system, are conducted on one and the same principle with children of every age. The only distinction being that in the Initiatory and Junior Schools the broader outlines are first given, whereas in the more advanced and with older scholars these outlines are progressively filled up at each lesson with greater minuteness. We shall now briefly notice some Elementary branches, which have been adapted more or less to the principle of the Training System. MODE OP ANALYZING ONE SENTENCE DAILY DURING THE ORDINARY HEADING LESSONS. During the progress of an ordinary reading lesson, suppose from a collection in natural history, or any scientific subject, the master may proceed as follows, fixing upon one sentence, having some distinct point of information: -- 1. Read it on the principles already stated, page 128. 2. Picture out the general meaning of what is read. 3. Spell the whole sentence progressively, each child by turns, or simultaneously. 4. Parse it. 5. Fix upon one or more etymological roots, from which diverge; see page 218. 6. Then you may require sentences to be formed and expressed, as under the head Mental Composition. Whatever number of sentences each child or all the children may have read for the sake of practising the sounds and also analyzed, so as to interest and instruct them in what they do read, a single sentence or paragraph on this principle will daily afford them an exercise at once in reading, understanding, spelling, grammar, etymology, and mental composition. Writing.--In teaching to write, there is nothing peculiar in the method followed in the Model..