Reading in Public Schools
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217978385
Paperback|9780217978385
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART II PRIMARY READING CHAPTER III The Primary Period The childiLJintering school, stands on the threshold of a new phase of life wondering, listening, ready to have his imagination attuned to the finer influences. It is a most significant and impressive time for him. His mind is not filled with many perplexing questions and he is prone to believe all that he hears and sees. He is curious, groping, searching, and reaching out for the unknown and at the same time busy constructing imaginary situations. His whole disposition is to follow after nature, to do those things for which he feels a need rather than pursue conditions set up for him by others. The two words which summarize the distinctive characteristics of the primary period are imitation and imagination. Imagination and Literature Although the latter of these will receive a more exhaustive discussion farther on, a word or twoabout it here may not be amiss. No better material can be found for stimulating this power of mind than literature. As soon as the child has acquired the power to read, and even while he is acquiring it, he should not be sent on a long chase after the phantoms and vagaries found in cheap literature produced by indifferent writers, but to thejrich deposit of the centuries?which by its simplicity, its self-reliance upon elemental truths of the soul, its homely instincts, its free spirit of wonder and belief, appeals directly, surely to the imagination of the child. Feed him only on the best. Through the already wide-open gates of child-life let in the life- giving floods. Give him through choice books a multitude of friends who will never desert him and of whom he will never be ashamed. The best literary works have so much imagination concentrated in them that they appeal to and stimulate...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217978385 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021797838X |
| Weight | 0.67 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.46 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 202 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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