Easy Steps In Reading Writing And Spelling

Author : UNKNOWN. AUTHOR
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781332010004
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Easy Steps in Reading, Writing and Spelling written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Easy Steps in Reading, Writing and Spelling: Kellogg's Readers, First Reader, (Phonetic;) It is not recommended to commence the instruction of children before they attain the age of seven years, unless in exceptional cases, at six, where the pupil is uncommonly bright, has good insight and is interested and careful. The pupil at seven will do more, work in two years, and do it better, with improved discipline and morale, and attended with more successful progress throughout his subsequent course, than in three years, commencing at six. Moreover, by this rapid method, if the pupil does not possess sufficient maturity of mind to grapple with the subjects which follow the reading, writing, and spelling steps, there will be either imperfect success with them, or a period of waiting for the pupil's development. It is greatly to the advantage of the pupil not to begin until schooling means business, and he is sufficiently mature to be able to advance successfully and understandingly, from step to step, in a continuous and unbroken line. In the author's practice, during the first year the hours of instruction are limited to three - from 91/2 to 1 o'clock, with two recesses of fifteen minutes each deducted therefrom. The author believes that pupils starting as beginners will, at this age, accomplish more, and with greater enthusiasm and interest, in three hours than in a more protracted daily session. Pupils who have received two years' instruction, or less, by ordinary methods, and have made a fair degree of progress, are received into his school and classed with the beginners, starting the first day at the first lesson and proceeding with the others, as two years' advancement (by ordinary methods) is overtaken in six weeks. They make better progress in this way. The phonetic instruction is valuable to any pupil, and worth all the time given to it in the course of instruction laid down in the First Reader. They require the discipline, the course affords. It is important that they should begin while the work is easy. They will not take the same interest or make as good students as the beginners who have not been subjected to the evil effects of false methods. Pupils who have received previous instruction need the lee-way afforded by starting with the beginners. A class of seven-year-old pupils starting together and attending school regularly, should be able - the advanced class - to take three lessons daily, and reach the transition to common print in about a month. At this point, also, pupils who are able to read two-syllable books in the common print with facility may be admitted to the class of beginners. Under no circumstances that can be avoided should backward pupils from other schools be classed with beginners. They will drag down the class, retarding its progress immensely; and while the beginners are waiting on the slow movements of the backward pupils, the former will become inattentive, which will soon develop into a habit of inattention, by which the teacher will lose much of her hold upon them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.