Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-06-06
EDUCATIONAL.
CD. BELDEN, EDITOR.
How to Teach Language

HOW Co Io8Cn Language.
A complete list of the teachers for the
summer term will appear in this column
next week.
The trustees of the LIE Roy village
school have elected the following teach
ers for next year: Prof. E. L. Coffeen,
Miss Minnie s. Hunt, Miss Mabel Roy,
Miss Drusie Allen.
Miss Jennie Short, of this city, has
been appointed one of the teachers in the
Owat0nna schools for the coming year.
Miss Short has just graduated with high
honors at the Mankato Normal school.
Of her essay on the Relation of School
and Home Training. read at the gradual.
ing exercises, the Mankato Register says,
Miss Short was happy in expression,
effective in delivery and strong in logic. "
The graduating exercises of the Leroy
high school will take place at Aliens
Hall next Friday evening. The follow
ing IS the program:
Salutatory aud grafton, Success crowns effort.
Recitation. :...-.:A Scene at Gettysburg.
Henry L. Bishop.
o'"''''' Miss Maude Nick XII Ka,fht: '"* r'es'
MISS Annie kasSOn.
lies your Italy, MIR. Willie Allen.
Addresses by Principal E. L. Coffeen, SuDt.
c. D: Beiden and II Prot !: H: L: Goffsen. A.,
len, President Of the Board.
This is the first graduating class at LIE
Roy and the exercises will command
wide interest.
The teacher should remember that by
Language teaching" We mean that teach
ing which shall result in a ready and cor
rect use of language. She must also re-
member that language is used in two
ways only: orally and in writing. Re-
Numbering also that children learn to
talk by talking and to write by writing,
she IS prepared to take the first step in
language teaching intelligently.
1st. Give the pupils something to talk
about. Tell them good story and then
let them, in turn, tell it to the class. One
pupil can tell little of it, and another
may then take l: up and carry 1t on un
til third is ready to assist. In this way
half dozen, and even more pupils may
| take part IN telling the same story.
Other stories can be added from day tc
day until sufficient stock has accumu
lated for ordinary use. A list of these
stories should be written upon the black
board.
Daily, or whenever the pupils arr
weary of any exercise, let the teacher
say, Now, children. let US tell stories
We will tell the story about the mon
key" Ned and Annie and George tel
this story IN their own simple language
Now, who will tell the story about on
dog, Carlo?' Three or four other child
rem take part in this story. And so thu
story telling goes on until it is time t(
resume the usual class exercises.
The pupils should be encouraged tt
tell these stories in their own words
Few, if any corrections should be mad
until the story has been fully told. Thel
mistake. Such mistakes as have beef
noticed will he commented upon by tn
teacher, but in such way that the pu
pills will feel perfectly free to take
hand" in the story telling whenever the
have chance. The teacher should re
member that most of the mistakes vii
disappear as the pupil becomes accus
toned to talking.
These stories should be told and no
read to the pupils, in the first place, b.
the teacher. Young children are yer,
likely to catch the words of the book
and whenever they do so the story tellin
, as language lesson, is of little value.
When the children are old enough t.
write, these stories can be written upo
the states. Thus they may be trained i
the use of written language. The
should be encouraged to express them
selves in writing just as they have e,
pressed themselves IN telling the stor
orally Moreover. the teacher shout
neither talk herself nor allow anyone els
. to talk while the writing is going on. Sh
may walk quietly among the scholars q
they write and may take note of sue
. errors as she would like to comment W
= on before the whole class, and the pupil
should have at least ten minutes of unil
,, terrupted time for writing.
The work thus briefly outlined shout
be carried on for four or five years, til
stories being adapted to the ages or G.
pacitles of the pupils. If 1t be true thu
children learn to talk by talking and
write by writing, surely we have rigl
) to expect at the end of five years of sue
training they will express themselv'
both readily and correctly in good ia
guage.-Pracn ,al Teacher.