Excerpt from A Method for Teaching Primary Reading There are habits of reading that the pupils should form in the Primary Grades. The most important at the outset are: The habit of looking to a word, phrase, or sen tence for its meaning. The habit of attacking a word with the as surance that, through knowledge of the sounds of letters and combinations of letters, the pupils can find out what it says. The one habit deals with the thought and the other with the form, but they must go hand in hand. To establish the child in these habits is the Primary Teacher's problem in Reading. 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.