Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading (Paperback)

The order of this book is in a general way from the easy to the more difficult, with an attempt, also, at an agreeable variety. The editor has purposely avoided breaking up the book into lesson portions or giving it the air of a text-book. There is no reason why children should not read books as older people read them, for pleasure, and dissociate them from a too persistent notion of tasks. It is entirely possible that some teachers may find it out of the question to lead their classes straight through this book, but there is nothing to forbid them from judicious skipping, or, what is perhaps more to the point, from helping pupils over a difficult word or phrase when it is encountered; the interest which the child takes will carry him over most hard places. It would be a capital use of the book also if teachers were to draw upon it for poems which their pupils should, in the suggestive phrase, learn by heart. To this purpose the contents are singularly well adapted; for, from the single line proverb to a poem by Wordsworth, there is such a wide range of choice that the teacher need not resort to the questionable device of giving children fragments and bits of verse and prose to commit to memory. One of the greatest services we can do the young mind is to accustom it to the perception of wholes, and whether this whole be a lyric or a narrative poem like Evangeline, it is almost equally important that the young reader should learn to hold it as such in his mind. To treat a poem as a mere quarry out of which a particularly smooth stone can be chipped is to misinterpret poetry. A poem is a statue, not a quarry.

General

Imprint:	Wilder Publications
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2014
First published:	2014
Authors:	Horace Elisha Scudder
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 5mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	78
ISBN-13:	978-1-62755-586-9
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Self-help & practical interests > Adult literacy guides & handbooks Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > Language teaching & learning material & coursework > Readers Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > Specific skills > Reading skills
LSN:	1-62755-586-2
Barcode:	9781627555869

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