L.M.W.
LEARNING TO READ
Every sound and pedagogical method of teaching reading must include two
basic principles.
1. Reading must begin in the life of the child, with real thought
content. Whether the thought unit be a word, a sentence, or a story, it
must represent some idea or image that appeals to the child's interests
and adjusts itself to his experience.
2. It must proceed with a mastery of not only words, but of the sound
symbols of which words are composed.
The child's love for the story, his desire to satisfy a conscious need,
gives him an immediate and compelling motive for mastering the symbols,
which in themselves are of incidental and subordinate interest. While he
is learning to read, he feels that he is reading to learn and "symbols
are turned into habit."
If the child is to understand from the beginning that reading is thot
getting, we must begin with the sentence, rhyme or other language unit.
If a story is the initial step, a few well chosen sentences that tell
the heart of the story will constitute the first black board reading
lesson.
The next step is the analysis of the sentence, or the study and
recognition of the individual words therein.
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