The Culture Readers, Vol. 3: Embodying the Natural Method in Reading; For the Third Half-Year; Ethical Theme Friendship and Cooperation (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Culture Readers, Vol. 3: Embodying the Natural Method in Reading; For the Third Half-Year; Ethical Theme Friendship and Cooperation

This Course in Reading requires at least an hour a day. The correlated work in composition, nature study, etc., suggested in connection with the lessons, should be done outside the regular reading hour.

The Oral Spelling in Book III is to be committed. The object of this memory work is to establish the principles of English Spelling, not to fix in mind all the words used in illustration. Reviews, therefore, should deal with groups of words not readily remembered, and not with individual words infrequently used. Besides these exercises, lists of words commonly misspelled by the pupils should be kept on the blackboard for reference.

The Natural Method in Reading admits the spiral theory in education. Though the text of Book III is quite unbound by a fixed vocabulary, the Oral Spelling it evolves is found to be in the' main a review of that treated in the spirit of examination in Book II. This indicates that a general ground has been covered which will be traveled over and over again.

The pupil has been made sufficiently familiar with this orthographic groundwork of the language by the reviews of Book II to begin to generalize. He is therefore led in the course of this work to discover a few of the Rules of Spelling.

The teacher of this Course should read the Manuals of instruction prepared in connection with Books I and II. She should read also the text of the previous books of the series, and note where lines of continuity distinguish the treatment of certain subjects. The method in these cases is not that of the special text-book, but assumes the larger life of the child and adopts the forms of literature and art. These lessons leap from point to point in their several fields, it being impracticable in a Reading book to teach succinctly and completely any subject but Reading. However, in each field the lessons are evolutionary and methodical in their effort to implant a graded sequence of type ideas or leading principles.

The opening lesson in Book III belongs to a course in Books and Book Making begun on page 19 of the Primer. The object of this Course is to impart an appreciative regard for books, their authors, compilers, illustrators, and editors, all library workers, and the inventors that have contributed the mechanical means of book production.

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