Playtime And Seedtime (1898)

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The problem of making a reader for the lower grades is a very difficult one, judging byresults. The vocabulary of children learning to read is small, therefore, say the authors, the number of vrords 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 cmthor. 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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