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Page 5 - TWO little kittens, one stormy night, Began to quarrel and then to fight ; One had a mouse, the other had none, And that was the way the quarrel begun. " I'll have that mouse," said the bigger cat. " You'll have that mouse ? We'll see about that." " I will have that mouse,
Page 46 - Characteristics which may be expected to cause interest in primary children are, it appears, surprise, and plot, for both sexes, animalness for boys, and childness, familiar experience, and to a lesser degree, repetition and conversation, for girla.
Page 4 - V (April, 1898), pp. 523-40. ana, with a request for written answers from pupils under their charge. 1. Write the subjects of all the lessons that you remember from the Reader you used last year. 2. Which one did you like best? What was it that you liked? 3. If you were taken to a bookstore and told that you might select just one book, what would you take?
Page 1 - ... and that the child's delight in the oral story should be utilized in the very first steps of reading. This basis is the distinguishing feature of the Primer. In consequence, real stories, rich in dramatic action, have been chosen—stories which make use of the child's curiosity...
Page 50 - For it must be remembered that the three elements, animalness, familiar experience, and childness, which are notably significant in the interest of one sex, are all positive in value for the other sex also, and that surprise and plot are important interest determiners for both. Interest, in fine, offers no obstacle to an all-round selection of primary reading material.
Page 47 - The indication of this study is that it is not the fancifulness of the fairy lore that causes its appeal, but other interest factors which it possesses, such as surprise, plot, childness, animalness, or familiar experience ; and that true or realistic selections, equally possessed of these desirable characters, would be equally interesting.
Page 5 - It is probable that young children are interested only in the rhythm of verse as found in rhymes of the Mother Goose type, and that real poetry receives little recognition before the adolescent period.
Page 10 - The overlapping in the content of fifteen second readers," Journal of Educational Research, 2:465-474, June, 1920.
Page 48 - Generalizations as to humor are particularly difficult, since humor as the child sees it and humor to the adult mind are not one and the same. Children laugh at funny mishaps, but are often baffled by the hidden meanings or by the subtle turns of expression and thought that make humor for the adult. A case in point is the story of Epaminondas and His Auntie. Said a teacher, 'I never liked the ending of that story. I don't believe any of the children see the point, when the mother says, "You be careful...
Page 17 - Reader and the large sale of Pierpont's series, in both of which, and especially in the former, literary excellence was the characteristic feature. The Willson series showed the absurd limit to which the utilitarian principle might lead, and the necessity for finding the true center for this branch of the curriculum. In the struggle for central position, literature gradually emerged from the conflict triumphant over those subjects which are confined within the limits of time and space, and in the...