Playtime and Seedtime (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Playtime and Seedtime

1. Reading should be, first of all, interest ing to the learner; and in order to be interest ing it must come close to and enter into the child's stream of thought.

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Excerpt from Playtime and Seedtime

The problem of making a reader for the lower grades is a very difficult one, judging by results. "The vocabulary of children learning to read is small, therefore, say the authors, the number of words used must be limited;" the result is often namby-pamby, meaningless, uninteresting sentences, like "The cat is on the mat." Reading and reading aloud are different processes. Reading is imaging or thinking by means of written or printed words. Oral reading is the expression of the conscious thought in the words of the author. Oral reading should assist the mind action in imaging. Very often, however, it clogs and stifles the imaging through an over-effort or over-strain to pronounce words.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.