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A First Reader - Frank E. Spaulding
Frank E. Spaulding, Catherine T. Bryce
A First Reader
Published by Good Press, 2022
goodpress@okpublishing.info
EAN 4066338061720
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
With·The·Birds
THE OLD OAK TREE
Out·of·Doors
THE WIND
THE LEAVES
THE BIRDS AND THE LEAVES
THE SNOW
LITTLE BIRDIE
FEEDING THE SQUIRRELS
THE SQUIRRELS
In·Summer Time
SUMMER IS COMING
PUSSY WILLOWS
THE PUSSIES
LITTLE VIOLET
MOTHER’S SONG
BABY
BABY ASLEEP
THE NEW KITE
TOM AND THE WIND
THE SONG OF THE WIND
With.Flower.&.Star
THE ROSE
THE BEAUTIFUL GARDEN
THE GARDEN IN WINTER
ROSE, DAISY, AND LILY
THE SPRING TIME
TOM AND THE BIRDS
THE STAR
THE DANDELION’S FRIENDS
At·Christmas·Tide
WHO IS IT?
SANTA CLAUS
WHO IS SANTA CLAUS?
THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
THE DOLL AND THE SLED
CHRISTMAS MORNING
PLAYING IN THE SNOW
In·Garden·& Meadow
THE LITTLE PLANT
BE GLAD
THE FAIRY BUTTERFLY
THE BUTTERFLY IN THE GARDEN
THE LITTLE FAIRY
THE WHITE LILY
THE CATERPILLAR
THE DANDELION
THE BEE
THE BUSY BEE
WHY THE CLOVER IS SWEET
Vocabulary
INTRODUCTION
Table of Contents
This First Reader continues the interesting exercises of the Aldine Primer—the rhymes and stories, the dramatizations and pictures—which make the child’s efforts to master the art of reading both delightful and surprisingly successful. The content is concrete, alive and full of action. The joys of happy childhood at play in the open—with the birds, the animals, the flowers, the wind, the snow and the rain—the joys of childhood’s imagination, are presented in the language of childhood and from the child’s point of view. The child finds here none of the drudgery—to him quite meaningless—so often associated with the disagreeable task of learning how to read; the child reads from the very first page—he has been reading all through the Primer—reads with delight and real understanding, reads the thoughts and feels the pleasures of childhood. Hence the not uncommon occurrence of a child’s suddenly discovering in surprise that he has learned how to read—that he can read—that he is reading—and that he likes to read!
But there is no magic about the Aldine method, if it can be called a method. Like the marvellous modern achievements of applied science, its success depends upon the simple principle of understanding and utilizing, instead of ignoring and antagonizing, nature. The child’s nature furnishes the key, the sure guide to all the method there is in Aldine reading.
The initial stock of about one hundred sight words,
which the reading of the Primer has furnished, is increased gradually. At first most of the new words are easily acquired, as were those of the Primer, through the memorizing of simple and interesting rhymes. Such rhymes occur on pages 3, 6, 11, 15, 17, 25, 28, 33, 37, 47, 55, 75. But for the development of the power and the habit of independent mastery of new words by the child reliance is placed on the exercises in phonics, which should be systematic and constant throughout the book. Just what these exercises are and just how they are to be carried out to make them most effective are matters fully explained in the Teacher’s Manual, Learning to Read.
No formidable mechanism is involved in the teaching of phonics. The plan is an entirely simple