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LEARNING TO READ
BY THE
Story Telling System
“Every primary teacher should be able to tell a story to children effectively; this is an accomplishment almost indispensable in her art. If you, as a teacher, have never told a story, begin at once.” Thus write the authors of
The Aldine Readers
in
“LEARNING TO READ”
A Manual for Teachers
Rhymes, introduced by appropriate stories, furnish the most effective means of acquiring an initial stock of “sight words.”
The story with which the teacher introduces each rhyme is not a mere device for making a hard task easy for the child.
The story does serve this purpose, but it does much more than that.
It arouses the child’s interest; it attracts and hold the child’s attention; it stimulates and directs the child’s thought; in short, the told story does for the child what the printed story must do later. By teaching the child to listen well, the teacher is preparing him to read well.
Story tellers use the Aldine Method, because learning to read in this way appeals to the child as a real pleasure; he enters upon the undertaking with the enthusiasm of his play and recreation.