Reading: How to Teach It

by Sarah Louise Arnold

Let us suppose that a class is reading “Paul Revere’s Ride”:

“Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride,

Booted and spurred, with a heavy stride

On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere.

Now he patted his horse’s side,

Now gazed at the landscape far and near,

Then, impetuous, stamped the earth,

And turned and tightened his saddle-girth;

But mostly he watched with eager search