The essentials of method in teaching children to read by Wade Joseph H

Author:Wade, Joseph H. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: [n. p.]
Published: 1912-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

of profound thinkers, such children have simply gained a certain degree of familiarity with a peculiar kind of visual object, which is an extremely mechanical sort of thing to do, requiring no very high degree of mentality.

" One may be able to recognize words so as to be able to pronounce them, while one's experience is far from giving one the key to their contents, and thus enabling one to read in the true sense of the word. It is a simple matter of psychology that reading for content, instead of simply for verbal recognition, cannot go far beyond the individual's experience."

With short sentences, or as they are called in the first years, stories, the child is trained to grasp the story as a whole. The words are either famihar by association or the teacher has made them plain and clear by explanation; therefore there should be no halting delivery in the reading of the story. It is because of this training to grasp the whole sentence that this method has been called the sentence method. It is because it trains the pupils to study content and to think, that it is called the thought method, but by whatever name it is called, when combined with sensible and systematic phonic drills, it is undoubtedly the most effective in results, and we can understand why Dr. Maxwell placed this habit of taking in as much of a line or sentence in a single glance as possible, as the first of the habits he recommended in connection with the teaching and learning to read.

It does not require special manuals or technical training to make successful teaching when such simple and sometimes so-called old-fashioned methods are advocated. There is nothing mysterious or bizarre in their application, and a good teacher will get good results by devoting to the work of reading only the regular time allowed in the course.

Probably there is nothing more disappointing to the teacher who is really striving for success than to have pupils stand and read as if every word was being pulled into the lesson

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