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Students practiced penmanship in copybooks. |
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Student read from the McGuffey Reader set. Each set included six readers and a primer. Children in the on-room schoolhouse advanced through readers at their own pace. |
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Hornbooks were paddles of wood on which was placed short sayings, poem, and the alphabet for students to work with. |
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Paper was expensive, so many students wrote out their work on slates using chalk and cloth to erase. |
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Students did not have pens or pencils, so the wrote using a sharpened quill dipped in ink. To prevent smudging, students blotted the ink after every few letters. |
