The sentence method of teaching reading, writing and spelling: a manual for teachers by Farnham George L

Author:Farnham, George L. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Reading
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y., C. W. Bardeen
Published: 1895-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

soou as he acquires the abihty to write legibly from copying the work from the board, he ^yill begin to change his oral compositions into written ones. This constructive, written work will follow the same order, and accompany step by step the oral work already indicated. These first compositions furnish excellent reading lessons, for no tw^o being alike one reads for the information of the others, conforming to the practice in real life.

Like all the other exercises in language, composition must not be taught directly, but success in it is attained incidentally in the endeavor to express thought. The ability of a child to use words correctly in oral or written composition is the only sure test of his understanding them. It requires far less familiarity witli language to read mechanically, than it does to use tlie same language in the expression of our own thoughts.

Subject-Matter. The first lesson will be in connection with o])jects, as was given in the First Steps in reading. Next objects may be described. Then as new words are found, each one will be used in the expression of a thought and in the construction of a sentence.

The child may next be called upon to relate what

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