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... read , will clarify the work of the teacher and indicate the necessity of specific train- ing in radically different types of reading and the wisdom of having definite , clear - cut aims in the teaching of reading . Reading will then no ...
... read , will clarify the work of the teacher and indicate the necessity of specific train- ing in radically different types of reading and the wisdom of having definite , clear - cut aims in the teaching of reading . Reading will then no ...
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... read- ing indicates that greater attention to the under- lying elements , physiological and psychological , upon which intelligent reading depends should be given by all connected directly or indirectly with the teaching XV.
... read- ing indicates that greater attention to the under- lying elements , physiological and psychological , upon which intelligent reading depends should be given by all connected directly or indirectly with the teaching XV.
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... teaching of this subject . Fortunately we now have available an immense amount of critical , scientific material bearing directly upon the physiological elements involved in the reading ... reading ability constitutes one of our most import ...
... teaching of this subject . Fortunately we now have available an immense amount of critical , scientific material bearing directly upon the physiological elements involved in the reading ... reading ability constitutes one of our most import ...
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... reading together with their practical applications to teaching . While no effort has been made to evade the discussion of the psychological and physiological principles involved , the non- technical treatment of the subject makes the read ...
... reading together with their practical applications to teaching . While no effort has been made to evade the discussion of the psychological and physiological principles involved , the non- technical treatment of the subject makes the read ...
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... READING : ITS HISTORY AND ITS CULTURAL RÔLE · The pictograph stage - the ideograph stage the phono- gram stage the ... teaching of reading compared with other school subjects - problems and ... reading maturity - rate of reading measures xix.
... READING : ITS HISTORY AND ITS CULTURAL RÔLE · The pictograph stage - the ideograph stage the phono- gram stage the ... teaching of reading compared with other school subjects - problems and ... reading maturity - rate of reading measures xix.
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analysis arithmetic attention average number chart comprehension COURTIS SILENT READING diagnosis dyslexia Educational Psychology effective elementary school elements experience experimental pupils eye-movement habits FIGURE fixation pauses fixation-pauses fixations per line fourth grade FRENCH PASSAGE high school IBIA improvement increase instruction interpretation investigation Judd and Buswell Latin letter-spaces material meaning ment mental method norms reported number of fixations number of regressive number of words oral reading passage perception peripheral vision phonograms pictograph Plate primary grades printed symbols Psychology psychophysical RAPID READING rapid silent reading rate of reading reader reading ability reading attitude reading process reading rate regressive movements remedial treatment scientific shown shows SILENT AND ORAL SILENT READING TEST sixth grade slow standardized tests subject matter superiority teacher teaching of reading thought tically tion training in rapid type of reading University of Chicago upper grades visual span vocal words per minute
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Page 14 - Do you deserve to enter? Pass. Do you ask to be the companion of nobles? Make yourself noble, and you shall be. Do you long for the conversation of the wise? Learn to understand it, and you shall hear it. But on other terms? — No. If you will not rise to us, we cannot stoop to you.
Page 36 - The result is that more than eleven-twelfths of all the children in the reading classes in our schools do not understand the meaning of the words they read; that they do not master the sense of the reading lessons, and that the ideas and feelings intended by the author to be conveyed to, and excited in, the reader's mind, still rest in the author's intention, never having yet reached the place of their destination.
Page 12 - If we think of it, all that a University, or final highest School can do for us, is still but what the first School began doing, — teach us to read. We learn to read, in various languages, in various sciences ; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of Books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the Books themselves I It depends on what we read, after all manner of Professors have done their best for us. The true University of these days is a Collection...
Page 16 - But have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means ? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? To the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment?
Page 36 - In school practice it appears likely that exercises in silent reading to find the answers to given questions, or to give a summary of the matter read, or to list the questions which it answers, should in large measure replace oral reading. The vice of the poor reader is to say the words to himself without actively making judgments concerning what they reveal.
Page 13 - Princess, or arresting the kind glance of a Queen. And yet these momentary chances we covet; and spend our years, and passions, and powers in pursuit of little more than these ; while, meantime, there is a society continually open to us, of people who will talk to us as long as we like whatever our rank or occupation ; — talk to us in the best words they can choose, and of the things nearest their hearts.
Page 18 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Page 12 - All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been : it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books.
Page 16 - We often hear of people who will descend to any servility, submit to any insult, for the sake of getting themselves or their children into what is euphemistically called good society.
Page 13 - And yet these momentary chances we covet ; and spend 'our years, and passions, and powers in pursuit of little more than these; while, meantime, there. is a society continually open to us, of people who will talk to us as long as we like, whatever our rank or occupation ; — talk to us in the best words they can choose, and with thanks if we listen to them.