Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most important thing. All the children could make it if we gave them more of the attention they need." Chall's book, Learning to Read: The Great Debate, fueled a phonics controversy in 1965, and a revised edition, due out next spring, presents new research supporting the phonics method of teaching reading to all children. But despite the evidence, many schools continue to teach the so-called look-say method, which depends upon visual recognition and memorization. While the look-say method works for many normal children, it is nearly useless for dyslectics, who have great difficulty recognizing words...
...should be taught just as physical or athletic skills are taught, through practice and coaching. The third and most innovative column refers to the enlargement of understanding: the aesthetic appreciation of works of art and the ability to think critically about ideas and values. This calls for a Socratic method of teaching, the lone requirement a large table of students where the teacher is simply the first among equals...
...well-toned body shows me that a woman cares enough about herself to improve herself. I exercise because it makes me feel good, not because of how men react to it." Says Gail Eisen, 40, a producer at CBS News in New York and co-author of The Pilates Method of Physical and Mental Conditioning: "Just being thin isn't pretty any more. Now beauty is the vibrancy of someone who's got blood rushing through her body from exercise. To be beautiful you have to be healthy. And to be healthy you have to exercise...
Those who have already rushed out to buy Different Seasons (Viking; 527 pages; $16.95) may be a trifle shocked by what they have brought home: a collection of four novellas, only one of which offers the chills that have become King's trademark. The Breathing Method is an eerie account of a terribly unnatural childbirth. But the other three, though sporadically gruesome, come without King's customary trimmings. Gone are varieties of telekinesis (Carrie, Firestarter) and precognition (The Shining, The Dead Zone). There are no vampires ('Salem's Lot), apocalyptic plagues (The Stand) or satanically rabid...
Even King's elderly characters talk as if they had spent their lives at Saturday kiddie matinees. In The Breathing Method, an old physician sits in an exclusive Manhattan club, spinning a long-ago yarn. He recalls the terror he once saw on the face of an ambulance driver, "His eyes widening until it seemed they must slip from their orbits and simply dangle from their optic nerves like grotesque seeing...