Excerpt from The Child's Book of Language: Graded Lessons and Blanks for the Natural Development of Language, Introductory to Letters and LessonsWith little children whose previous habit had been in the line of rote recitation, and whose idea of a school was stilted and unnatural, I have sometimes broken through the reserve by giving ten minutes at the open ing of each session to familiar talk.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.