OF

READING BOOKS.

BY REV. C. S. DAWE, B.A.,

Normal Master, St. Mark's College, Chelsea.

INFANT

READER,

No. I.

The Educational Supply Association,

LIMITED,

I, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON.

PREFACE.

Ir is well known that in all good Infant Schools, the Mistress has been under the necessity of using books prepared for children older than her own, to give her more forward pupils exercises in reading sufficiently difficult. These Infant Readers (Nos. 1 and 2) will, it is hoped, render this unnecessary, by affording young children a series of reading lessons increasingly difficult in language, while sufficiently simple and attractive in subject-matter for them to understand and take an interest in.

The hardest words have been selected from each lesson, divided into syllables, and placed at the head of the lessonnot to serve as a spelling-task, but as a preliminary exercise in reading with the aid of spelling. As we chiefly learn to recognize words by their general form, and as this is somewhat altered by the use of hyphens, it has been thought desirable to print the words undivided in the body of the lessons; at any rate, such division will not be needed, if the words at the head of the lesson are first of all carefully read over and over until thoroughly known.

HERE is my new book. I will try to read it well. I think I shall like it. I will take care of it. Yes, I will take great care of it. I must read it with clean hands. not let a spot of dirt come near it. must not make dog's ears in it.

I will bring it to school in my bag.

I must

And I

And

I will take it home in my bag. I must not