Download or read book How to Teach Reading, and What to Read in School (Classic Reprint) written by G. Stanley Hall and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from How to Teach Reading, and What to Read in School How to teach children to read, and what they should read, are two of the oldest and most complicated, as well as most important problems of pedagogy. To begin with the first of these problems, there are two methods of teaching the art of reading: viz., the synthetic, which proceeds from letters or sounds to words, sentences, etc.; and the analytic, which begins with pictures, words, or sentences, and descends to visual or vocal elements. So long and so far as letters were named from real or fancied resemblances between the form of the letters and objects, the process of naming them no doubt facilitated learning, much as to call our large A a harrow, B an ox-yoke, etc., would now do. This latter, or even if a novice in Hebrew were to remember that mem is water, aleph an ox, nun a fish, etc., would be especially helpful in writing, which in modem methods often comes as a very early stage of language-teaching, and where a distinct name is helpful for each sign. Just when or by whom the school device of telling off the independent names of letters as a key to the spoken word (or spelling) was hit upon, is unknown. Of course, d-o-g really "spells" deogee, and not dog, any more than delta, omicron, gamma, does. Arbitrary in itself, spelling has naturally associated itself with harsh methods of teaching. 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.