How to Teach to Read The Ten Great Steps Fully Explained Classic Reprint

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Within the past ten years a great deal of thought has been given to the methods to be employed in teaching a child to read. It has been apparent that While children assuredly have learned to read, (1) that a great number have no pressing desire to employ themselves afterwards in reading. (this has necessarily attracted great atten tion, for who has ever seen a child that has learned to talk that did not afterwards talk at every opportunity (2) That many children are mentally stunted by the meth ods employed in teaching them arithmetic is admitted, and this must be true also of those taught to read, for the methods employed are equally defective. (3) That the directions given for teaching to read have been too gen eral and vague. (4) That a clear philosophy of the mode by which written language is acquired is not usually pos sessed by the teacher of children a. Routine is fixed upon and is blindly followed.

It is not deemed best to present in this book the men tal processes by which reading is acquired but a knowl~ edge of them is believed to have a real value to the primary teacher. (1) There is here a presentation of the great steps in the process of learning to read, with the reasons for them. (2) There are methods and apparatus proposed by which the desire for activity, (on which the intellectual salvation of the child depends), can be ration ally employed in the field of printed words and produce practical results.

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