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Identifier: learningtoreadsu00arnol (find matches)
Title: Learning to read; suggestions to teachers of young children
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Arnold, Sarah Louise, 1859- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Reading
Publisher: New York, Boston (etc.) Silver, Burdett and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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A number of new words appear in the fables.To omit them, or to substitute familiar and easy ones, would lowerthe standard of expression. It is believed that the children will findthe fables worth mastering as they are written. Into these stories someexpressions and phrases are introduced which purposely assume afigurative form. It is time for the children to begin such reading.The language of literature is different from the language of conversa-tion, and will ever be. The hare sped like the wind, is more diffi-cult to master than The hare ran fast, but it is worth all it costs. The folk story of the Mouse in the oven spinning blue wool hasever been a favorite with children. The repetition is a delight tothem. Here we make amends in full for the hard work in the fable;for the words of the mouse, in the story, are repeated over and overagain. What is the secret of the childrens delight in this story?The teacher who answers this question will know how to choose read-ing for her pupils.
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LEARNING TO READ. XIX. THE MISSION OF THE PICTURE. In preparing this series of books, no effort has been spared to securereproductions of the best pictures that children like; yet it mayhappen that so great emphasis is laid upon the reading of the textthat the mission of the picture will be forgotten. Within the FirstReader are included Millets Churner, and Feeding the Birds,Meyer von Bremens Little Nurse, and Sir Joshua Reynolds Angels Heads. The children should talk about the pictures, tellwhat they see in them and how they like them, recur to them againand again as they turn the pages of the book, the teacher never passingthem without some comment upon their beauty. Upon page 105, the subject of the lesson is the Mother, whom thechildren love better than any one else. She is the dearest mother in the world. Her smile is like the sunshine. Her voice is as sweet as a song. She is busy from morning: till nkrht. It is mother who makes our dresses. It is mother who gets our dinner. It i

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