A Dictionary Of The English Language Abstracted From The Folio Ed By The Author To Which Is Prefixed An English Grammar To This Ed Are Added A History Of The English Language C

Author : E. Jennifer Monaghan
Publisher : Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book A Common Heritage written by E. Jennifer Monaghan and published by Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Introduction: "This sets Webster's spelling book in an altogether different light. It was just a book that taught children how to spell (although of course it did that as well); it was the book that taught them to read. Although they may well have seen a primer at home, the speller was the first school text to instruct them in the art of reading. So the Webster spelling book, in its various forms, is of more importance to the history of American education than has formerly been appreciated. It deserves to be examined as the most popular reading instructional text of its day. A second purpose of this book, then, is to examine the spelling book on its own terms and in its own context. For Webster, of course, did not write his textbook in a vacuum. He had, it turns out, a useful model: a spelling book written by an Englishman, Thomas Dilworth, who titled his work A New Guide to the English Tongue. (Benjamin Franklin had been the first to produce an American edition, publishing it in 1747.) Webster himself learned to read from "Dilworth," as the work was affectionately known, and he would appropriate Dilworth's book for his own work."--page 14.