THE CLASS AND STANDARD SERIES OF READING BOOKS ADAPTED TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE REVISED CODE. BY CHARLES BILTON, B.A. ASSISTANT TO HER MAJESTY'S INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS. BOOK II. (STANDARD II.) LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1867. STANDARD II. Requirements of the Revised Code. Reading.-One of the narratives next in order after monosyllables in an elementary reading book used in the school. Writing.-Copy in manuscript character a line of print. Arithmetic.-A sum in simple addition or subtraction, and the multiplication table. PREFACE. THIS BOOK is intended for children who are already tolerably familiar with lessons in words of one syllable. In schools under inspection such children will be preparing to pass in Standard II.; and for them the book is especially adapted. When presented for examination, they will be required to read a narrative next in order after monosyllables.' All the prose lessons in Book II. are of this kind, containing as they do only words of one and two syllables in length. At first but few dissyllables-and those of the simplest and easiest kind-are introduced; but with the lessons they become more. frequent. this manner the foundation laid by the teaching of the lessons in the Introductory Primer and the First Book of the Series, In |