Provides some suggestions for teachers to use to help children follow directions. (WR)

Discusses Samuel Orton's writings on cerebral dominance and effects of certain neurological anomalies on learning. (WR)

This textbook is a reader with selections from familiar and popular ballads and tales relating to historic or legendary incidents and personages that have become famous in literature. Such selections as these, put into the hands of the young, will tend to foster a wholesome enjoyment of reading and to develop a fondness for books. They introduce…

This textbook is a course in first-grade reading. The goal is to approach the matter of primary reading both from the standpoint of the latest investigations in primary reading and also through the eyes of the child himself, keeping in mind environmental handicaps, lack of experience of many teachers, over-large classes, and other features that…

This textbook is a third reader. Selections are poems and stories of fairy life intended to spark the pupil's imagination and, in some cases, impart moral values.

This textbook is a fourth-year reader in a series of readers prepared for the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, now recognized as the crucial years in gaining technique in silent reading. The series objective to direct silent reading, to motivate oral reading, to develop the reading habit, and to broaden the child's outlook on life. In their…

This textbook is a fifth-year reader in a series of readers prepared for the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, now recognized as the crucial years in gaining technique in silent reading. The series objective to direct silent reading, to motivate oral reading, to develop the reading habit, and to broaden the child's outlook on life. In their…

This textbook is a sixth-year reader in a series of readers prepared for the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, now recognized as the crucial years in gaining technique in silent reading. The series objective is to direct silent reading, to motivate oral reading, to develop the reading habit, and to broaden the child's outlook on life. In their…

This textbook is the seventh reader in a series of illustrated primary readers. The chief aim of this series of readers is to develop, to a greater degree than has usually been done, the pupils' reading abilities, appreciation of literature, self-reliance, and good judgment in reading. This book is a unit in itself. In its careful selection of…

This textbook is a companion volume to "The Howe System of Teaching Reading: The Thought" (ED623776). This volume breaks out study words from the reading selections in the aforementioned reader. [The title on the book cover is "The Howe System of Reading: The Word. Second Year. First Half."]

This textbook is a companion reader to "The Howe System of Teaching Reading: The Word" (ED623775). This volume presents reading selections from fables and fairytales. Study words are broken out in the aforementioned companion book. [The title on book cover is "The Howe System of Teaching Reading: The Thought. Second Year. First…

This textbook is an illustrated reading primer. This small volume, intended as a first book for children, will, it is hoped, be found an acceptable aid to little learners in their earliest efforts to ascend the ladder of learning. The lessons contain the most simple words--those with which the ear of the child is familiar. By the combination of…

Designed for use by teachers of reading at all educational levels, this dictionary provides comprehensive lists and definitions for more than 5,000 words relating to reading and the teaching of reading. In addition to definitions of the main entry words, the dictionary includes representative terms from fields contributing to the study of reading,…

TEACHING STUDENTS TO ENJOY POETRY AS POETRY IS OFTEN NEGLECTED. TAKING PARTS OF A POEM OUT OF CONTEXT AND ANALYZING THEM MAKES THE STUDY OF POETRY EVERYTHING BUT PLEASURABLE TO STUDENTS AND TEACHERS ALIKE. THE STUDY OF FACTS ABOUT POETRY IS NECESSARY, BUT SHOULD BE COMBINED WITH THE STUDY OF THE FUNCTION, THE EFFECT, AND THE OPERATION OF A POEM.…