Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came to hear, carefully breathing those "baby-babies" into the hushed gym, everything was so fine. Unfortunately, that was not all the time. The Supremes' opener was "Put on a Happy Face," a swinger of a show-time that made them sound like the McGuire Sisters in an Ed Sullivan Show production number. Diana Ress's version of "Make Someone Happy" was pleasant to listen to her strong husky voice sounded exactly like Nancy Wilson's, which was exactly not what her rock 'n' roll fans had almost trampled each other to death at the gate to hear...
Nevertheless, Sullivan kept quizzing kids, found that they could be coaxed to chuckle first over impish-looking drawings of red ants, a fat man, even a thin pin, later over a frolicsome poodle named Nip and a red-headed moppet named Walter-all illustrating stories with plots that children found engaging. Laboriously trying out frame after frame on children and rejecting those that led either to boredom or too many wrong answers, Sullivan's team completed 21 textbooks-three series of seven, roughly intended for the first three grades...
...words -including deceitful, labyrinth and ridiculous-and he is reading action-packed stories about Greek mythological heroes. Teachers normally limit the children's reading sessions to no more than a half-hour. In that time a child responds affirmatively about 100 times. And each response, says Sullivan, means that "learning takes place inside the learner...
...careful comparisons with children taught by conventional methods, programmed reading has consistently come out on top. The average child who has completed one year of the Sullivan program, for example, scores in the third-grade level on the standard Gates Reading tests-even though the Gates tests are based on the different vocabulary of conventional primers. The brightest 10% in most Sullivan first-grade classes read at fifth-grade level...
...also gives her a chance to cope with one of the most worrisome facts facing every elementary teacher: the broad range in mental age (at least four years in a typical first-grade class) among her students. But the real key to the program's success, in Sullivan's view, is that in his books "the kids were the authors...