The progressive road to reading

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Book Three Teachers' Manual

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GOPTBIGHT. 1909, BY

SILVER, BURDETT AND COMPANT

INTEODUCTION

This series is the outgrowth of regular class-room work in Public School No. 147, Manhattan, New York City. Its purpose is to inspire the child with a desire to re^d, by opening up to him the story-world, and through his love of reading, to give him the power to read.

In order that the pupil may be animated by the most effective of all stimuli, interest, the authors have based their method on a collection of legends and folk stories. Selected from the classics of childhood, these stories have real literary value ; they sparkle with life and action, and the illustrations effectively help to bring the child into the atmosphere of the story.

The study of formal phonetics, begun early in Book One, is continued throughout Book Two. Unfamiliar words are taught by blackboard drills just preceding the reading of the new lesson which contains these words. These exercises prepare the child to attack all words in the story which have been used as sight words, all those which he can pronounce through his knowledge of the phonetic key, and all new sight words which are outside the key.

Diacritical markings, which were employed in Book One to smooth rough spots, do not appear in this book. In case any new word presents peculiar difficulties these may be readily overcome by placing on the blackboard either the unfamiUar word with its diacritical markings, or a sight word containing the phonetic elements which the child has not recognized.

The aim of the phonetic work is not that children may read a certain number of pages from the printed book, but that they may acquire a key to printed language.