Familiar Instructions For Young Children PDF Download

THIS book, like the other volumes of the series, is intended, in a great measure, for children that have not yet learned to read fluently enough to understand and enjoy reading by themselves. Of course, in such cases, the book is to be read to the child by a parent, a brother or sister, or other friend, as a book of instruction.The following directions will be of aid to those thus using the book:1. Read very slowly and deliberately. Pause after each* question, to allow the child time to give answer to it, if he is able to answer it ; and if not, to awaken his curiosity in respect to the answer, so as to prepare him to receive it with an appetite, as it were.2. Always. make the best of any answers which the child may venture to give to the questions of his own accord ; that is, interpret them favorably, and treat them in an indulgent manner, explaining the mistakes, and the infantile errors which may be involved in them, in a gentle encouraging way, so as to draw out the thoughts and ideas of the child more. and more fully, instead of repressing his communicativeness by appearing to consider his conceptions and opinions foolish or absurd.3. Encourage the child to ask as many additional questions as he pleases in respect to the subjects introduced, or* to the engravings illustrating them, and make many additional explanation. Whenever the subject of the questions is any object that is at hand, and can be examined, the attention of the child should be especially directed to it, and time allowed for the full examination of it, and for the complete verification of whatever may be* said about it in the book.