Excerpt from Twenty Lessons in Reading, With Fifty Classified Selections, for Use in Kansas Normal Institutes, High Schools, Normal Schools, and Private StudyThat reading is poorly taught we must admit, but that it can and should be better taught we all agree.One of the chief difficulties met by the institute instructors is, that there has been no available text book, brief, practical concise, at the same time comprehensive enough to stimulate the student, and In price within the reach of all.There has been an honest endeavor to supply that want in this little work.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.