THE CLASS AND STANDARD SERIES OF READING BOOKS ADAPTED TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE REVISED CODE. BY CHARLES BILTON, B.A. ASSISTANT TO HER MAJESTY'S INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS. BOOK I. LESSONS IN MONOSYLLABLES. LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1867. MOTH Requirements of the Revised Code. Reading.-Narrative in monosyllables. Writing.-Form on black-board or slate, from dictation, letters, capital and small, manuscript. Arithmetic.-Form on black-board or slate, from dictation, figures up to 20; name at sight figures up to 20; add and subtract figures up to 10; orally, from examples on blackboard. PREFACE. THIS little book has been written for the use of children between six and eight years of age, and is especially adapted for such as are about to be presented for examination in Standard I. of the Revised Code. Before commencing it, the pupils should have gone through the Introductory Primer of the Series, which it is desirable they should do, if possible, in the Infant School. The Book differs from most others of its kind chiefly in the following particulars : 1. Every lesson is written entirely in monosyllables. It has been acknowledged by teachers of the greatest experience that to make children familiar with our words of one syllable, in as great a variety as possible, is one of the best and surest foundations upon which to build up other parts of the language. In this book a copious vocabulary of monosyllables has been given in the form of connected narratives, &c., such a method being preferred because the child is not only interested while learning to read, but is at the same time storing the mind with ideas. Many of the lessons may be read either before or after the corresponding object lessons have been given by the teacher; while it is hoped that the introduction of Fables (translated |