Improvement in the Teaching of Reading: Supplement to the Course of Study in Reading, Elementary and Secondary Grades

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Department of Education, Bureau of Research, 1926 - 129 páginas
 

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Página 124 - I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else but learning, is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me. And thus my book hath been so much my pleasure, and bringeth daily to me more pleasure and more, that in respect of it, all other pleasures, in very deed, be but trifles and troubles unto me.
Página 103 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i...
Página 95 - Books are keys to wisdom's treasure; Books are gates to lands of pleasure ; Books are paths that upward lead; Books are friends. Come let us read.
Página 42 - Colors preferred by the younger children are rather crude and elementary, having a high degree of saturation and a great deal of brightness. Older children gradually grow into a preference for softer tints and tones...
Página 123 - I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr Elmer ; who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing whiles I am •with him.
Página 102 - So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came!
Página 37 - The outward form of a book, its effect on the eye, has much to do with arousing or depressing a child's interest in it. The writer has made many experiments which help to prove this fact. The placing on the shelf of the public library of a classic in text-book or other dull cover, and printed in small close-set type insures that the classic will carry out the saying : " Be good and you'll be lonesome.
Página 41 - The internal arrangement of books also influences choices. (a) Numerous illustrations make a book acceptable to children. Twenty-five per cent, of the book space seems the minimum amount of space to be devoted to pictures to make a book acceptable for little children. Large, full-page pictures are preferred to smaller ones inserted irregularly in the text.
Página 41 - STUDY 1. The physical make-up of a book does exert influence upon children's selections. 2. Size appears to be a factor in book selection. The small, diminutive volume does not appeal as strongly as a larger book. The size most acceptable to the children in the primary grades appears to be about seven and one-half inches long by five inches wide and one inch thick.
Página 38 - It is rarely stolen and rarely worn out ; two proofs of unpopularity. But place on the shelf the same work in a gayly covered edition, illustrated in color, printed in clear attractive type, and presto ! the book disappears legitimately or otherwise. And often a child who reads this attractive volume will tell other children about the story, and, behold, the formerly despised, homely volume becomes fashionable. "A child's idea of an attractively bound book is not according to the aesthetic taste...

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