The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-12-21
may try it again on your states.


ne states are Inspected as before ;
the tlmld are encouraged, and the
letter written for them on their states.
Then the drill on the sounds is repeat
ed, and afterwards individuals called
up to give it.
=" Ii this is found enough for one
lesson, when the course is resumed.
the exercise on a should be reviewed.
The teacher will then proceed with
another letter in a similar manner,
taking one that, with the preceding,
Will make duo.literal word. Sup
pose 1t is {. The letters are placed to.
gether.
"Ie dcher.-' You see [ have put
together the two letters you have
learned, and they make word /;
wouldn't you like to read the word :
Hear me say the sounds, and see if
you can tell what the word is. | will
give them slowly,-a, {. Can you tell
the word ?
After several repettions, perhaps
some one will combine them and say,
at.
" 1eacher.-'Yes, at; that is
right. Now you have read word.
You often use the word. l am at the
desk I; you are at school. Say, 'We
are at school, l will write both let
tiers on the board. l begin thus, and
make the first and then you see how
| make the other, and cross it thus.
You may take your states, and make
them.
" Now the reading lesson is chang
ed for writing or printing This hav-
ing been pursued long enough, the
alphabet chart is suspended before
the class, and the pupils requested to
see if they can find the word. The
first who raises his hand is allowed to
come out and point to it.
"If any time is allowed to elapse
before presenting another letter, these
steps should be reviewed. The next
letter to be learned should be one
which, with at, will form another
word. Let it be r. The same course
as before is pursued. First the at
tention is called to the form. Next,
the sound is learned. Then, it is
written, exercising the conception and
imitation, and fixing the form in the
memory. The three letters are then
placed In order to form the word rat.
"Ieacher.-'You see the three
letters you have learned. They make
another word. Hear me give the
sounds, and then see if you can tell
the word ; rat. You may give the
sounds after me?
I" In the same way make the words,
bat, cat, tat, hat, mat, sat, yat.
The letter might come next. This,
placed after a will give the word an.
Then M which placed before makes
man. And so make tan, ran, fan,
pan, can. For the next vowel, take 4
with 70 making IN. Then as before
form pin, bin, din, tin, SIN, aoin.
"Thus proceeding, 60 through the first
Ieading Chart, always using every Woru
learned in oral sentences, and training
the class to make them for them
selves"
Comparing the method advocated
and so carefully outlined by Philbrick,
an educational leader Of his day, with
those Of the foremost educators and
men of thought of the present time,
and we see that the years between
1860 and the present, have not been
a period of intellectual inactivity, but
that long stride has been taken
ahead.
Though the foregoing method is
antiquated, still teachers of our own
day may prohtably take hint here and
there from it as to the manner of pre-
senting subjects to classes so as to
create an interest in the pupils.