The True Education Readers

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 30, 1907

The True Education Readers

While the special purpose of True Education Readers Nos. One, Two, and Three is to put the child in possession of a complete key to English reading, they also familiarize him with the most important Bible truths. Three times over they tell of God’s plan for the earth in the beginning, the successive steps in the work of creation, something about each of these steps, and give a sketch of certain selected Bible child biographies, including the life of the perfect Child, Jesus. It deals also with his work, his sacrifice, the finished plan of salvation, and the new earth.

The First Time In simple language, by attractive pictures, and the best methods of teaching reading, True Education Reader No. 1 fixes upon the child’s mind in his first school year an outline of the beautiful gospel story from creation to redemption.

The Second Time Enriched by many illustrations, enlarged by additional topics, made more interesting by sketches from the lives of insects, birds, and animals, the incidents of the gospel story are given the second time in True Education Reader No. 2.

The Third Time True Education Reader No. 3 tells it again, and in connection with it brings in a variety of other matter, such as poems, biographical sketches, Bible selections, our Saviour’s parables, simple lessons on physiology, geography, and botany, and adapts it all to the growing intelligence of the child in his third school year, for whose use it is intended.

How the Mind is Prepared for This Thrice-told Story The oral Bible lessons which follow the same outline as the readers are given by the teacher or parent before (perhaps one or two weeks) the child comes to the subject in his reading, so when he does come to the lesson in his reading, he recognizes it, and reads with greater interest and understanding.

And Then the Story is Reviewed The regular text-book for Bible study which is now being prepared for grades or school years four, five, and six, is developed from this same outline. Hence, the child’s fourth, fifth, and sixth years’ work in Bible will be in the nature of a review of the lessons, the general features of which he has been made familiar with during the preceding three years.

An Illustration Suppose a child with his parents takes a trip across the continent. Before he reaches each point of special interest, he is told a story concerning it by his parents. When the point is reached, he has developed an interest in it, and is likely to remember something about it.

The next year the trip is taken again. The same method is followed by the parents. More points are visited, and much more is learned about those seen the first time.

The succeeding year he takes the same journey, but with various side trips, and spends more time at each point. Old memories are revived and strengthened, new facts concerning familiar places are learned, and all is vividly impressed upon his mind by the thrice-told story to which he has listened and the threefold view he has enjoyed.

The Application This is the kind of trip and the method of instruction enjoyed by the child who learns to read by use of True Education Reader Series, books One, Two, and Three.

The Harmony of This Plan So you see the True Education Reader Series harmonizes with the plans and methods adopted by the Educational Department of the General Conference in behalf of our church-schools.

DESCRIPTION AND PRICES

No. 1 contains 204 pages, post-paid . . . . . . . 75c No. 2 contains 256 pages, post-paid . . . . . . . 75c No. 3 contains 304 pages, post-paid . . . . . . . 90c

These books are all durably bound in cloth.

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