Special Method in Language in the Eight Grades

by Charles A. McMurry

Excerpt from Special Method in Language: In the Eight Grades
This small volume is designed for elementary teachers, and aims to give a broad and simple treatment of the language problem below the high school. Owing to the enrichment of the course of study with literature, nature study, and history, the conditions are now favorable in many schools for the steady growth of accuracy and fulness of expression in the mother tongue.
Language exercises should not stand apart, but should be linked closely to all the other exercises of the school.
Besides the general discussion of aim and method, a complete course of study is laid out and a chapter of illustrative lessons is given.
The last chapter contains also reference lists, for the use of teachers, of verbs, homonyms, abbreviations, rules of spelling, etc. The correction of common errors of speech is also systematically carried out.
This is the seventh volume of the series of Special Methods, the whole series running as follows: Special Method in the Reading of English Classics, in Primary Reading, in Geography, in History, in Elementary Science, in Arithmetic, and in Language.
A further volume on the Manual Arts is in preparation.

210 pages, Hardcover

First published September 27, 2015

About the author

Charles Alexander McMurry (1857–1929) was an American educator. He was the brother of Frank M. McMurry. He studied at the Illinois State Normal University, the University of Michigan and earned his Ph.D. in 1887 from the University of Halle (Germany). He served as professor at the Illinois State University and at the University of Chicago.