Teaching to read by Hughes James Laughlin 1846-

Author:Hughes, James Laughlin, 1846- [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Reading
Publisher: New York, A. S. Barnes & company
Published: 1909-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

his capacity for transforming material things in harmony with his own plans, and of the joy of ever deepening and ever widening acquaintance with the mysteriously attractive processes of Nature, that he will not have any time left for reading till he is nine years of age.

But the letters and their sounds and powers should not remain abstractions to the child, and certainly they cannot continue to be unrelated. The letters should always be spoken of, to the children, as if they had personality. They should be represented as saying something, as speaking alone, as singing duets w^ith other letters, or as keeping silence to listen to their other little comrades in the words, when they are not expected to speak themselves. This simple practice invests the letters with a real personal power, and arouses a vital interest in them on the part of the children. It adds to the interest, and aids in a natural classification of the letters to speak regularly to the children of the vowels as '' girls,^^ and of the consonants as ^^boys.^"^ The words ^' vowels '^ and " consonants ^' should of course not be used, but to have both ^' girl ^^ letters and " boy *' letters makes the personation more complete and more real, and prepares the way, lays the apperceptive basis, for a logical classification of the letters later. It adds greatly to the interest of the child in any subject to attribute personal power to inanimate things. The child's imagination continually associates the idea of life with inanimate things. A piece of stick readily becomes a mamma who tells endless stories to her stick children. A collection of sticks, or pins, or buttons, or even of marks in a row, will form an army of the bravest soldiers. The child's imagination vitalizes everything it touches with life.

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