Chapter 5 Practice

A flat wooden board with a handle that included a sheet of paper-usually containing the alphabet, a prayer or two, and Roman numerals-pasted on the board.

• Hornbook

• Common Schools

• Apprentice

• Normal Schools

Answer explanation

The first public schools available to children from all levels of society.

• Apprentice

• Common Schools

• Montessori

• Dame Schools

Someone who learns a skilled trade by watching and helping someone in that trade.

• Hornbook

• Apprentice

• Progressives

• Normal Schools

Schools that prepared men and women with the necessary skills to become teachers.

• Dame Schools

• Normal Schools

• Disposable income

• McGuffey's Readers

The teaching principles developed by an Italian doctor, emphasizing self-directed learning through sensory experiences.

• Career and Technical Education

• Montessori Method

• Progressives

• Common Schools

Members of a reform movement that began in the late 1800s. They believed that education should be more individualized and teach students the skills that would improve the ills of society.

• Dame Schools

• Progressives

• Apprentice

• Hornbooks

Money beyond that needed for basic necessities, allowing people to buy or do things that they want.

• Career and Technical Education

• Disposable income

• McGuffey's Readers

• Apprentice

The first widely used textbooks published during the American Common School Period. They included moral lessons along with science, grammar, and other subjects.

• Disposable income

• McGuffey's Readers

• Dame Schools

• Hornbooks

Schools run by women in their own homes during early America. Parents paid a fee for their children to attend.

• Apprentice

• Dame Schools

• Normal Schools

• Career and Technical Ed

Courses of study that prepare students for careers related to a specific trade or occupation.

• McGuffey's Readers

• Career and Technical Education

• Common School

• Dame School