Excerpt from The See and Say Series, Vol. 1: A Picture Book Teaching the Letters and Their Sounds With Lessons in Word Building In former days children were taught to read by the slow and inadequate process of learning the alphabet, pronouncing the letters of every new word and waiting to hear the word pro nounced' by the teacher. Sometimes this spelling furnished the young learner with a clue to the pronunciation of the word, and sometimes not. The word and sentence methods attempted to correct the errors of the alphabet ...
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Excerpt from The See and Say Series, Vol. 1: A Picture Book Teaching the Letters and Their Sounds With Lessons in Word Building In former days children were taught to read by the slow and inadequate process of learning the alphabet, pronouncing the letters of every new word and waiting to hear the word pro nounced' by the teacher. Sometimes this spelling furnished the young learner with a clue to the pronunciation of the word, and sometimes not. The word and sentence methods attempted to correct the errors of the alphabet method. These methods emphasized the truth that words are merely signs of ideas and that sentences exist to express thought. By these methods, we said, reading Should become What it ought to be getting the thought from the printed page. Every new word so learned by itself was the Sign of an idea; in the sentence it helped to express the thought. Children thus taught learned to read with expression, but were wholly dependent upon the teacher when confronted by an un familiar word. When later they were asked to Spell and write. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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