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Practical Recitations

Selections for Literary Exercises

APPROPRIATE FOR

Reception-Days, Holidays, Poets’ Birthdays, etc.,

INCLUDING

CONCERT AND MUSICAL RECITATIONS, AND DIALOGUES
FROM POPULAR AUTHORS, ESPECIALLY
ARRANGED FOR THIS WORK.

BY
Caroline B. LeRow,
Instructor in Elocution, Central School, Brooklyn, and formerly
Instructor in Vassar and Smith Colleges.

NEW YORK:
Clark & Maynard, Publishers,
771 Broadway and 67 & 69 Ninth Street.

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A Practical Reader.

WITH
EXERCISES IN VOCAL CULTURE.

By CAROLINE B. LeROW,

Instructor in Elocution, Central School, Brooklyn, and formerly at Smithand Vassar Colleges.

All students are expected to be able to read well ordinary prose andpoetry, and it is for the purpose of helping them to do this, as well as tohelp teachers in the teaching of reading, that this book is prepared.

It is thoroughly practical. No unnecessary technical terms are used.The subjects explained and illustrated are those only which, as the resultof many years’ experience among teachers as well as pupils, the compilerhas found most necessary.

As physical development and correct vocalization must precede all goodreading, the simplest and therefore most essential physical and vocal exercisesare given, with full directions for their use.

The selections for reading present nothing of a merely showy style ofelocution. They are adapted for the upper classes of Grammar Schools,as well as for High and advanced schools.

We claim that the Practical Reader contains more suitable material forelocutionary work in the school-room, in more condensed, analytical, andavailable form, than any other Reader or Speaker before the public.

224 Pages, 16mo, Handsome Cloth Binding, Red Edges.

A Specimen Copy for Examination, or Copies for Introduction,will be Delivered at 60 Cents Each.

How to Teach Reading.

By CAROLINE B. LeROW.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Failure in the Teaching of Reading—Teaching by Imitation—Natural andLogical Method—Variety in Teaching—Physical Exercise—Value of Exercise—Directionsfor Using Exercises—Exercises for the Body—Exercises for theChest—Cautions in the Use of Physical Exercises—Breathing—Breathing Exercises—Cautionsin the Use of Breathing Exercises—Whispering—Articulation—VowelSounds—Consonant Sounds—Final Consonants—PhysicalEffort in Articulation—Impediments of Speech—Blundering Articulation—Mannerof Practicing Exercises in Articulation—Spelling Words by Sounds—Naturalnessin Reading—Place of Emphasis—Selection of Words—Teachingwithout a Book—Punctuation—Sense Independent of Punctuation—TheReading of Poetry—Concert Reading—Reading and Singing—Vocal Accuracyin Recitations—Breathlessness in Reading—Timidity in Reading—Workin Advanced Classes—Special Faults—Extract from “Reading as aFine Art.”

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