How Children Learn by John Holt

Author:John Holt
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2017-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

I mean, like them enough so that we will be glad to read them not once or twice but many times.

There’s no reason to feel, either, that we must always read aloud to little children from “easy” books that they can “understand.” If we are reading something we like, with great expression and pleasure, a child may well like it, at least for a while, even if he doesn’t understand all of it. After all, children like hearing adults talk, even though they can’t understand much or most of it. Why not reading as well? Once, when teaching first-graders, I decided to try reading aloud to them something more difficult than the very simple stories they were used to. My choice was The Odyssey for Boys and Girls, by A. J. Church—a book I loved when small, but which many teachers would feel was much too advanced or difficult for first-graders. This class, however, liked it very much, and on subsequent days asked me to read more of it.

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