Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pastor Prince is such an apt pupil that he is called to become pastor of the large, powerful First Church in Mammonville -"an honor that angels would covet." But almost before he can turn his charm on the new congregation, he is inconsiderately called to the "bright golden shore...
...used in most schools is a combination of systems. The educators admit that word recognitlon has its dangers. It is quite possible, as one Louisville mother reported of her son, for a third grader to type out b-o-w-l and call it pot, or for a pupil to develop the annoying habit of putting the President in the White Horse or assembling stamp collisions. But phonics alone can be equally disastrous. Though a pupil might be able to read the word institute right off, says Elementary Education Supervisor Mary O'Rourke of Massachusetts, he can without other...
...school," says ames E Greene, professor of education the University of Georgia, "I spent days learning the letters of the alphabet and a lot of meaningless syllables like AA, BB and AB. What the hell did I care for AB? The whole idea is not to drill the pupil in abstract symbols at first but to bring about what the educators call "reading readiness...
Bear to Pear. In determining a child's readiness to read, the teacher must make sure not only of his eye, but also of his ear. Thus, the pupil may be given a series of pictures and asked to circle the object that the teacher names. If he mistakes a comb for a cone or a bear for a pear, he is obviously on his way to mistaking "institute for "introduce." In another series of pictures, the teacher may try to put across certain abstract concepts. A pupil will be asked to draw a ball beside, under or above...
Rabbit & Rattle. By such methods, the pupil is expected to build up a vocabulary of 50 to 100 words he can recognize at sight. Some teachers use flashcards; others may have a "daily newspaper" for which the children can recite a one-sentence story about themselves ("I played ball yesterday"). Detroit schools use a pre-primer called Before We Read. This teaches the beginner to distinguish shapes (e.g., by picking out a sailboat from a series of trucks) and sounds (e.g., by picking out objects with similar names, as in rabbit and rattle, turtle and turkey). The next book also...