Royal Readers II. [antikvár]

PREFACE. This book forms No. II. of " The Royal Readers." The lessons in it are designed so to interest young people as to induce them to read, not as task-work merely, but for the pleasure of the thing. The pieces are of a character well calculated to give life, and point, and fresh interest to the daily work of the class—to allure the children to read, and to make them delight in exercising their power of reading. In adapting the lessons for the daily work of the schoolroom, especial care has been bestowed upon the "Word-lessons, so as to make them available for a great variety of exercises. I. The Meanings of the difficult words are given at the head of each lesson. The object here has been, not so much to give dictionary meanings, or synonyms, as to translate the words into the language of children. The definitions are in such a form as to admit of their being readily substituted in the lesson for the words explained. II. The Spelling-lessons given in the print-writing character are intended for Slate exercises. They can be