Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...educators began applying the now obvious notion that one good way to teach a child to read was first to snag his interest. They produced readers related to a child's own experiences, and in the 20th century, they started to control the number of words to be introduced. They argued about the merits of oral and silent reading; they also began to champion the idea of teaching a pupil to recognize words as wholes. Gradually, word-recognition became the vogue. "There's no doubt about it," says Elementary School Superintendent Oscar M. Chute of Evanston, 111. "Back...
...experts believe that at the beginning, a child should learn to recognize new words just as he would recognize a new face. He does not start with an isolated nose and then add a mouth and a couple of ears; at the beginning, he takes in the face as a whole. So, they say, it should be with words. To the beginner, learning that k is named kay and in words is pronounced kuh, that e is a vowel that is sometimes long and sometimes short, and that tie is a syllable that is pronounced tul would be to confuse...
...used by the experts, none takes quite such a beating as "reading readiness." Critics denounce the idea as a nonsensical waste of time; some teachers take it so literally that they simply sit around waiting for their pupils to start reading on their own. By modern theory, a child is not "ready" for printed symbols until he has a mental age of about 6½. Though some children do learn long before by some process of their own, most must be led gently into it. The ideal readiness program is not only supposed to train the child both physically...
...tell one mother that he could not accept her son because his aptitude was not high enough. After hearing his decision, she asked him, "What's the matter with you people nowadays? Won't you accept a challenge any more? This is the fourth school which has rejected my child...
Travels (really intended as a political satire) has been for two centuries a classic child's book. This man, born at the dawn of the Age of Reason, was to turn into a madman; the skeptical clerk who wrote lucid prose died raving. His was the skull beneath the powdered skin of the 18th century...