Plan of Work for the Progressive Road to Reading (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Plan of Work for the Progressive Road to Reading

IT is of the highest moment to every teacher of reading to 'know that her method is in accordance with the Standards of control authoritatively established.

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Excerpt from Plan of Work for the Progressive Road to Reading

It is of the highest moment to every teacher of reading to know that her method is in accordance with the standards of control authoritatively established.

The only criterion acceptable to-day for the soundness of any method of teaching reading to a beginner is this: Does the method proceed from wholes to parts and back again to clearer wholes? Does it advance from a unit of thought, a sentence, to the words as words without loss of the relationship among the words, so that a flow of association is maintained among the words as parts of the original re-created whole from which they have been disentangled, or as parts of a different whole created anew out of the same parts set in other relations? It is this relation idea that makes for true reading, as opposed to mere word calling with little or no consciousness of a higher unity. Does the method from the start train in power to grasp not a word but a related set of words, a sentence, an entire situation?

About the Publisher

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.