Study Guide ties each original lesson to a biblical theme. Instructions on teaching reading aloud, public speaking, good writing habits,memorization, logic, love for language as one of God's gifts. Many famous authors like Blackthorn, Shakespeare,Bacon, Irving figure prominently. By the time a child begins the third reader he will have surpassed most of today's high schoolers. Mastery of the fourth reader puts him beyond most college students.
Any adult can read the selections with profit.
You'll be awed at what was once accomplished in American schools, and resolved that your children grow up with the same advantages. The lessons cover a broad range of worthy topics including history, geography, poetry, and virtue. These are just reading selections,however, and do not as such offer instruction in phonics or grammar. Some of the 19th-century perspecitves are quaint, even funny. I'm happy to learn from them myself.