•Used sentences and story
•More elaborate phonetic methods that stressed teaching letters and combinations of letters
–Stories with animals or other creatures making sounds and children would draw letters on blackboard and make sounds (P and make a puff sound when drawing the curve of the letter)(part of the idea was to
make the work
interesting for children)
•Appreciation of literature, usually for older children, and involved defining and dissecting literature and began to move away from the elocutionary approach