Excerpt from An Outline of Progressive Lessons in Composition, Language, and Spelling for the Fourth Grade The methods in composition, language, and spelling for the third and fourth grades offered in this preface are the result of several years of supervision of the work in the Elementary Department of the State Normal School at San Francisco. The success of the methods presented justifies the confidence with which the texts are sent forth. The eagerness with which teachers have received the methods at various institutes at which they have been presented and their reported success, when they have been faithfully tried, give further assurance of their merit from the standpoint of application to the common needs of the public schools, graded and ungraded. 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.