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Miller's Mind training for children Book 3 (of 3) / A practical training for successful living; Educational games that train the senses

Chapter 2: HELPING YOUR CHILDREN IN SCHOOL
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A practical manual for parents and teachers offering sensory-based exercises and games to strengthen children's memory, visualization, and study habits. It explains how to form mind's-eye images while reading, provides techniques for remembering what is heard, and presents activities for mastering spelling, arithmetic, geography, history, foreign vocabulary, and other subjects. Emphasizing active mental participation over passive reading, the text recommends review methods, mnemonic devices, and concrete drills—map and word games, memory cards, multiplication practice and similar exercises—to make study engaging and to build durable learning habits across schoolwork.

HELPING YOUR CHILDREN IN SCHOOL

CONTENTS—BOOK THREE.

Helping Your Children in School7
To Remember What You Read8
Visualization the Greatest Aid9
The Artist's Picture10
The Author Is an Artist11
The Dead Line13
The Student's Review Sheet14
Longfellow's Picture—Evangeline 16
Helps for Learning Verbatim17
Alliteration and Alphabetical Sequence18
"Thinking"19
"Vision"20
Bridging the Gaps21
"The Things Divine"23
Remembering What You Hear25
Mastering Difficult Lists27
Learning the Presidents29
Studying Anatomy31
Becoming a Good Speller32
The Spelling Cards35
The Game of Word Making37
The Game of Salvaging Words38
The Game of "The Camels Are Coming"39
Learning Synonyms39
The Study of Geography40
Learning the Groups of States44
Puzzle Maps46
The Blank Map47
The Geography Game47
The Travel Game50
Studying History51
Remembering Dates52
The History Game56
The Game of Famous Men57
Studying Mathematics58
The Mental Blackboard61
Exercises in Manipulation61
Learning Rules62
Fractions63
The Multiplication Tables64
The Multiplication Game64
Tables of Weights and Measures69
Visualizing Geometry71
Aids in Studying Chemistry73
Chemical Formulae74
Hardness of Substances74
Atomic Weight Tables76
Learning Foreign Vocabularies76
Studying Music79
Speaking in Public—Outlines81
Review Your Studies82
A Word to Students84
It Can Be Done (Poem)86
Value for Forgetting87
To Remember Playing Cards88
Mastering Roberts' Rules of Order91
Aids for Bible Students95
Books of Old Testament95
Books of New Testament96
Rhyme Often Helpful98
Learning the Telegraphic Code99
The Knight's Tour105
A Last Word110