The Aldine Readers

A First Reader

This First Reader continues the interesting exercises of the Aldine Primerthe rhymes and stories, the dramatizations and pictureswhich make the childs efforts to master the art of reading both delightful and surprisingly successful. The content is concrete, alive and full of action. The joys of happy childhood at play in the openwith the birds, the animals, the flowers, the wind, the snow and the rainthe joys of childhoods imagination, are presented in the language of childhood and from the childs point of view. The child finds here none of the drudgeryto him quite meaninglessso often associated with the disagreeable task of learning how to read; the child reads from the very first pagehe has been reading all through the Primerreads with delight and real understanding, reads the thoughts and feels the pleasures of childhood. Hence the not uncommon occurrence of a childs suddenly discovering in surprise that he has learned how to readthat he can readthat he is readingand that he likes to read! But there is no magic about the Aldine method, if it can be called a method. Like the marvellous modern achievements of applied science, its success depends upon the simple principle of understanding and utilizing, instead of ignoring and antagonizing, nature. The childs nature furnishes the key, the sure guide to all the method there is in Aldine reading. The initial stock of about one hundred sight words, which the reading of the Primer has furnished, is increased gradually. At first most of the new words are easily acquired, as were those of the Primer, through the memorizing of simple and interesting rhymes. viSuch rhymes occur on pages 3, 6, 11, 15, 17, 25, 28, 33, 37, 47, 55, 75. But for the development of the power and the habit of independent mastery of new words by the child reliance is placed on the exercises in phonics, which should be systematic and constant throughout the book. Just what these exercises are and just how they are to be carried out to make them most effective are matters fully explained in the Teachers Manual, Learning to Read. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 65323
Author: Bryce, Catherine T. (Catherine Turner)
Release Date: May 12, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Contributor (Author): Spaulding, Frank E. (Frank Ellsworth), 1866-1960

Illustrator: Webb, Margaret Ely, 1877-1965