Word: teachings
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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...
...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 him hopelessly. Far better at first, say the experts, is simply to teach him kettle-even though he may sometimes call the kettle...
...suburban Wheaton, 22 miles west of Chicago, a similar crusade is on. Explains one angry mother: "They teach the beginning and ending consonants of each word well into the first grade-and I mean well into the first grade-and they expect the child to sort out the vowels for himself. I didn't send my child to school to guess at the vowels. I sent him there to be taught the vowels." The mother is now awaiting the school board election next month. "Then," says she, "we're going to lower the boom...
...experts, there is no single way to teach reading, nor is there one panacea for the national reading problem. Nor is there much doubt that many Americans will go right on complaining just as they were in 1845, when the Boston Grammar School Committee sadly reported that "a large proportion of the scholars in our first classes, boys and girls of 14 and 15 years of age, when called on to write simple sentences . . . cannot write, without such errors in grammar, in spelling, and in punctuation, as we should blush to see in a letter from a son or daughter...
...music appreciation," and thinks that love of music should be as complex and emotional as love itself. "We live in our emotions," he argues, "and that is the area a teacher must reach-and as soon as possible. If you can strike an emotional spark, then you can teach anything...