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EDUCATION

JANUARY 1920

A Magazine for Teachers of
Primary Grades

STANFORD LIBRARY

A Republic's Chief Business
is Education

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Bradley's Straight-Line Picture
Cut-Outs

Combining Paper Cutting, Coloring and Construction Busy Work

Boy Blue, Simple Simon, Jack and Jill, Alice of "Wonderland" fame and her friends, The Gryphon, The Dodo and other characters beloved by childrenall with movable arms, legs and heads are made from these Cut-Outs.

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No. 8214. Alice in Wonderland No. 8215. Mother Goose Toyland.

No. 8216.

No. 8300. Playtime Circus

Twelve Cut-Outs to a Set.

Price, each set, $0.25; Postage, $0.06.

When ordering, state series wanted.

Bradley's Phonetic Desk Card 8291. Designed for review work in phonetics. The teacher can determine at a glance the individual. child's knowledge of phonetics by noting the results of his efforts to make complete words on this card. Price, per box, $0.20; mailing weight, 7 oz

Economo Word Builder No. 1

8271. A new, large type word builder. Printed on high-grade tag stock. Extra strong box to withstand the constant handling and hard usage to which the "builder" box is subjected. Contains an extra large quantity of tablets.

Price, per box, $0.20; mailing weight, 7 oz.

Embeco Sentence Builder

8011. A selection of words for expression sentence building, printed on heavy manila tablets, in large type, with each word duplicated in medial script on the reverse side. When properly put together the words form the first basal story in Book I, "Progressive Road in Reading."

Price, per box, $0.15; mailing weight, 6 oz.

Poster Patterns

BY LULA MAUD CHANCE

8210. This poster work provides interesting occupation lessons through which the child's mind is receiving information while, at the same time, his hand and eye are being trained. The posters are designed to illustrate the subject-matter of Chance's "Little Folks in Many Lands," and by their use the child becomes familiar with children of many race types and develops an interest in people of other countries. Eight plates, sixe 9 x 12, in artistic portfolio.

Price, per set, $0.35; mailing weight, 8 oz.

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The Bradley Catalogue contains 144 pages of vital interest to every teacher. A post. card request will place a copy on your desk.

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The Best Resolution Any Teacher Can Make

Resolve now to end the danger of permanent or temporary loss of income through Sickness, Accident or Quarantine, which faces every unprotected teacher.

Every year one out of every six teachers is deprived of all or part of her income from these causes. Loss of salary, even for a time, means serious inroads on the savings account, and often real distress. Start the new year right by joining the thousands of other teachers who are positively protected by the T. C. U., at a cost of less than five cents a day.

What the T. C. U. Will Do For You

It will pay you $50 a month when you are disabled by Sickness or Accident.

It will pay you $50 a month when you are quarantined and your salary stopped.

It will pay you $25 a month for illness that does not confine you to the house, but keeps you from work.

It will pay operation benefits in addition to other benefits after your Policy has been maintained in force for one year.

It will pay you a 20% increase in Sick Benefits for two months when you are confined in an established hospital.

It pays regular indemnities of from $333 to $1500 for major accidents, or for accidental loss of life. All benefits are doubled for travel accidents.

As the first step toward making this most important resolution, send for our booklet, which explains T. C. U. Protection in detail and shows you what hundreds of teachers all over the country think of it.

Teachers Casualty Underwriters

428 T. C. U. Building

You Can Help!

Through the years since Gold Medal Crayons were first launched, your interest and support have been essential to the success of the line.

No one appreciates more than we the good-will you have shown, and no one has put forth greater effort to really justify this confidence. During the past few months, however, unusual conditions in both labor and material markets have made it difficult for us to keep many dealers supplied at all times.

For this reason we are asking our friends to put their orders in to their dealer for an advance supply, in order that he can anticipate his own requirements.

Lincoln, Nebraska

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"Single-Handed McAuley.' Florence M. Miller

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RHYME AND STORY READERS

By ETTA AUSTIN BLAISDELL and MARY FRANCES BLAISDELL

THE RHYME AND STORY PRIMER

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'Story-approach" method, with emphasis on phrasing. Mother Goose vocabulary. All pictures in colors. Price, 42 cents.

RHYME AND STORY FIRST READER

"Story-approach" method. Emphasis on phrasing. Profusely illustrated in color. Price, 48 cents.

WIDE AWAKE JUNIOR: An Easy Primer

Really the casiest primer-and the largest. Carefully graded. All pictures in color. Vocabulary, 200 words. Price, 40 cents.

The new book in the series of Wide-Awake Readers.

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having the following helps in teaching reading

Word Lists and Phonetic Lessons
for each story

Suggestions for written language
Phonetic summary

Alphabetical list of words taught
Specimen dramatizations

Devices for teaching sight words
and word groups

Devices for ear-training

Selections for memorizing

Various kinds of handwork and
games

A full scientific guide to enunciation
All these are furnished by the STORY HOUR Method
Do You Know the Story Hour Readers?

AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY

Cincinnati Chicago Boston Atlanta

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New York

VOLUME XXVIII

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A MONTHLY JOURNAL FOR PRIMARY TEACHERS

JANUARY 1920

Hang Up Your Thermometer

Ida E. Roger

Grade Supervisor, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.
(Book rights reserved)

OT the glass and mercury kind, but the mental variety that registers your pedagogical temperament, that blazes to you the challenge, "What am I Doing and Why am I Doing It?"- hang up in your mental vision this measure that stings you into introspective sifting, that calls, Am I working through principles or merely imitating devices of as many different varieties. as the 57 kinds of Heinz, all of which can't be meant for the same meal! Honestly face the question, "What Sort of a Place Ought a School to Be?". not what is the type we have inherited, nor again the type you have stumbled upon and helped in working out through blindly following your principal's hobbies, but the sort you would like to see offered your own child, or yourself (could you find yourself once again a six-year-old trudging to school)!

What Are the Tendencies toward which the efforts of our elementary grades are bending? To this query, can we not affirm that our aim is a character-building education and that not as mere teachers or givers of outlines but as workers in developing in each child a Response to his opportunities, do we hold that we are justifying the confidence of every child coming to us with a faith in humanity firmly fixed in his heart. We agree, however, that efficiency in any educational institution must be measured by clear, definite, uncompromising standards, even though "the confusions of the profession we are following are the confusions of life and of that strange unconquerable thing we call growth." And so even when recognizing character making as our aim, we are also conscious that ours is the responsibility "for accomplishing with a large number of children in an economy of time what we would like with one child in an infinite period of time.”

As a measure of our present purposes, I suggest the testing of what we are now accomplishing, by the standards proposed by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University. His measure is as follows:

"THESE FIVE CHARACTERISTICS I OFFER AS EVIDENCES OF AN EDUCATION: CORRECTNESS AND PRECISION IN THE USE OF THE MOTHER TONGUE; REFINED AND GENTLE MANNERS, WHICH ARE THE EXPRESSION OF FIXED HABITS OF THOUGHT AND ACTION; THE POWER AND HABIT OF REFLECTION; THE POWER OF GROWTH; AND EFFICIENCY, OR THE POWER TO DO."

The sound philosophy of these five criteria clearly meets the conditions necessary because of the world-war problems which demand that we shall prepare the child to take his place in the coming keen competition which he as the future citizen will face. The failure of Greek philosophy was The Relaxing of Effort and the letting down of obligation. Our acceptance of these five standards demands,

NUMBER 1

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From the first, habits are established which influence the Manner of reading later done. Reading matter which makes a strong child appeal is chosen and the child led by desire and interest to get the thought. This is the chief aim. Yet ability to master words must become automatic if reading is to proceed with ease and indepencence. Undivided attention to this need is given during a special phonic period and other specific drill upon grasping the words of a phrase or clause is also added. Experiments have proven that correct motor eye-habits increase the speed in reading and the ability to grasp the idea. The slow reader (we are shown by efficiency tests) finds interpretation of thought harder because he is “impeded by the mechanical processes of the reading act." His eye is not trained to group one sweep of related words, and his pausing upon each word makes the rate slow and the thought many times ununited. Modern methods of reading make much of this drill to grasp ideas “in their Combined Form in the thought." The reading systems. have definite standards for accomplishment. In addition, we are stressing silent reading combined with rate of reading. This accomplishes alertness, concentration, and thought getting. We are joining forces with the public library in instructing students in the use of that institution and are following up much of this independent reading by a use of the material gained. Vocabulary results from this source are infinite, and a natural step beyond that of the younger children who listen intently to and adopt phrases from the rhymes of Mother Goose. As the children thus increase in ability to comprehend and use the expressions met, they themselves discover the joy of continually broadening life's outlook, and so find that reading, in truth, may become a real adventure. This situation is one which is significant.

(b) LANGUAGE

The language course of study at the close of the sixth grade should show provision for the attainment of the

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