Thursday, November 19, 2009

Enjoying Old Fashioned Learning

Lately, I've really taken a liking to some of the old-fashioned books for primary education. It's interesting that probably due to the expense of printing back then the books are so concise and clear. Eoghan seems to be thriving from the McGuffey Readers. He likes the stories and illustrations that are definitely from a different era, but are not babyish like many of the emergent reading books available now. I also love the old language used in the stories and spelling books, words that have gone out of general use, but make it richer reading. Even the math book, Ray's Mathematics, uses old words - zero is said as "naught". Fun and inviting to wander into the old books used a century ago to educate the youth of America. I will post links to some of these old books and resources. Enjoy!

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