Sentence Method of Teaching Reading, Writing and Spelling: A Manual for Teachers

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C. W. Bardeen pub., 1895 - 55 páginas
 

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Página 56 - The unit of thought is the sentence," and if the child considers the words as units in learning to read, he must unlearn his habits of reading in order to read naturally. Mr. Farnham shows how much more easily children will learn to read, and how much better they will read, where this method is employed. The book is in general use all over the country — in Col. Parker's Cook County Normal School, among others. It is especially valuable for teachers
Página iii - ... But the Augmented Roman alphabets, although tried enthusiastically, did not solve all the problems of the teaching of reading. In 1881 George L. Farnham, a school superintendent conscientiously devoted to the search for the methods that would procure the most efficient reading, wrote the following. "In 1858, the phonetic system was introduced into the schools of Syracuse, NY, and for a time it was thought that the true method of teaching children to read had been discovered. After a trial of...
Página 19 - ... follows that the sentence is the unit of expression. . . . A second principle is : we acquire a knowledge of the parts of an object by first considering it as a whole. . . . Repeated recognitions reveal the characteristics of the whole, so as to separate it from other things. . . . The sentence, if properly taught, will in like manner be understood as a whole, better than if presented in detail. The order indicated is, first the sentence, then the words, and then the letters. The sentence being...
Página 17 - What is the whole? or what is the unit of expression ?" It is now quite generally conceded that we have no ideas not logically associated with others. In other words, thoughts, complete in their relations, are the materials in the mind out of which the complex relations are constructed. It being admitted that the thought is the unit of thinking, it necessarily follows that the sentence is the unit of expression.
Página 56 - As the word method was a step above the alphabet method, so the sentence method is a step beyond the word method. "The unit of thought is the sentence," and if the child considers the words as units in learning to read, he must unlearn his habits of reading in order to read naturally. Mr. Farnham shows how much more easily children will learn to read, and how much better they will read, where this method is employed. The book is in general use all over the...
Página 11 - Reading consists : — first, in gaining the thoughts of an author from written or printed language : — second, in giving oral expression to these thoughts in the language of the author, so that the same thoughts are conveyed to the hearer.

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