THE CULTURE READ EMBODYING THE NATURAL METHOD IN REA BY ELLEN E. KENYON-WARNER, Pi BOOK ONE-PRIMER EDITED BY JENNY B. MERRILL, Pò. D. ETHICAL THEME-MOTHER L NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1904 INTRODUCTION. This Course in Reading must be taught by the Natural Method. The Natural Method in Reading proceeds from the Whole to its Pa Concrete to the Abstract and from the Known to the Unknown. Proceeding from the Whole to its Parts, it: 1. Presents an entire composition, chosen from familiar child literatur 2. Compares this with other such forms, showing resemblances, identit ences, and gathering in this way an initial vocabulary of written words. 3. Continues this broad comparison by introducing the printed forms positions studied, thus reviewing, deepening and extending the impress during first study. 4. Groups some of the words of the vocabulary thus fixed, according to in initial sound and form, studying first the sounds that blend. 5. Reviews and fixes the knowledge thus gained by immediately appl parts discovered, in the construction of new words, thus extending the the easiest possible manner. 6. Continues the resolution of words into their parts by progressive anal elemental material of word structure is discovered. After sufficiently g ment, this material is gathered together, named the Alphabet, and memor Proceeding from the Concrete to the Abstract, it: 1. Presents subjects of intrinsic thought already familiar to the chil their written forms. 2. Compares such written forms for their general correspondence to thought. 3. Examines these forms for the closer correspondence of word to ide part to sound. 4. Teaches through copious practice in word analysis and constructio word structure, the highest abstraction reached in the Primer being the simple vowels, and the Alphabet as a summary of word material. Proceeding from the Known to the Unknown: 1. It bases the work of the first step upon the nursery lore and other possessed by the child on entering school. 2. The Known upon which the work of subsequent steps rests is the s gains of cumulative experience. The Method is inductive, depending first upon the collation of data fi studied in the mass. In order that the work of the first step may prepare the pupil for th second step, it must be conducted according to the directions given in the 81089 |