THE THIRD 'STANDARD' READING AND HOME LESSON BOOK. CONTAINING Lessons in Reading, Writing, Spelling AND UPWARDS OF 1000 ADDITION, SUBTRACTION, MULTIPLICATION Adapted to meet the requirements of the Revised Code BY JOHN GRAYSTON AND THOS. SIMPSON BIRKBY. LONDON SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & Co. 1865 [ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.] PREFACE. In consequence of the great success which has attended the first two books of this series, we have been led to bring out this work, upon the same plan, with slight modifications. At this stage of a pupil's progress the art of reading becomes of great importance; hence in the selection of lessons great care has been observed not to introduce such as would be beyond the intellectual capacities of the children for whom they are designed; so that the attention of the pupil will not be perplexed by difficult lessons, requiring constant explanation from the teacher. At the same time it is believed that the subjects are of such a character as will admit of the teacher improving the mental faculties of the child by the important art of questioning. The lessons are of easy gradation, fraught with instruction and amusement, simple and various in style and matter, and carefully adapted to meet the requirements of the "Revised Code" for Standard III. The subjects chosen are Stories of Children, Stories of Animals, a few easy lessons in Natural History, with a series of Moral Lessons The "Home Lessons" have a thorough practical bearing upon the work which will have to be performed before Her Majesty's Inspector, and as dictation is called for in this Standard, we respectfully suggest to teachers that, before reading or dictating the lesson, it is essential that the list of words given at the head of each lesson should be mastered at home; this being done, the reading and dictation will be comparatively easy. A system of "Home Lessons" properly worked out will be followed by valuable results to the school, make the progress of the child doubly sure, and cannot fail to obtain a large measure of success upon any examination. J. G. REQUIREMENTS. I. READING: A short paragraph from an elementary reading book used in the School. II. WRITING: A sentence from the same paragraph, slowly read once, and then dictated in single words. III. ARITHMETIC:-A sum in any simple rule as far as short division, (inclusive.) יד THE THIRD 'STANDARD' READING AND HOME LESSON BOOK. A THANKFUL SPIRIT. eat, po-ta-toes, bowl, la-bour, trudge, suffer-ing, grumb-ling, heart. "Its very hard to have nothing to eat but potatoes, when others have every sort of dainty," said Charlie, as he sat with his wooden bowl before him. "Its very hard to have to get up so early on these bitter cold mornings, and work hard all day, when others can enjoy themselves without an hour of labour." Its very hard to have to trudge along through the snow and wet, while others roll about in their coaches." "Its a great blessing," said his grandmother, as she sat at her knitting, "Its a great blessing to have food, when so many are hungry; its a great blessing to have a roof over one's head, when so many are homeless; its a great blessing to have sight and hearing, and strength for daily labour, when so many are blind, deaf, or suffering!" "Why, grandmother, you seem to think that nothing is hard," said the boy, still in a grumbling tone. "No, Charlie, there is one thing that I think very hard." "What's that?" cried Charlie, who thought that at last his grandmother had found some cause for complaint. 66 Why, boy, I think that heart is very hard that is not thankful for so many blessings!" HOME LESSONS, MONDAY.-I. Repeat 'three times' for Multiplication. II. Write out and learn to spell the words at the head of the lesson. III. Work the first three of the following sums: |