Identifier: studiesinreading00sear (find matches)
Title: Studies in reading; teacher's manual
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Searson, J. W. (James William), 1873-1927 Martin, George Ellsworth, 1872- joint author Tinley, Lucy Williams, joint author
Subjects: Reading (Elementary)
Publisher: Lincoln, Chicago The University publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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rioussizes and on various subjects. It is better to make thefirst one of only five or six pages. After children havethe idea, later books may be much more extensive. Thebooks should be made from sheets of paper at least six bynine inches, folded through the middle and sewed withyarn. Jingles or sentences for illustration may be hecto-graphed on the sheets before they are bound. A Mother Goose book may contain one or severalrhymes to be illustrated by drawings or free-handcuttings. One book may contain autumn leaves pressedand mounted. Another may contain free-hand cuttingsof fruits or vegetables. Christmas, Thanksgiving, andother holidays furnish excellent subjects for booklets.Each child should have a large envelope in which tokeep the materials for the booklet on which he is working. Children will learn to illustrate a story with skeletonfigures long before they are able to make a satisfactory 272 STUDIES IN READING drawing of people. Following are some poses whichmay be suggestive:
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The following seat work, based upon exercises withseat work cards, is designed to strengthen the childin the mechanics of reading: 1. Give out two copies each of ten different cards forthe children to arrange in pairs. SEAT WORK 273 2. Gradually increase the number of cards to twenty. 3. Rule large cards, about 8x10 inches, into spaces thesize of word cards. In every alternate space write words.Let children fill in the blank spaces with words thatmatch. These cards are well worth the trouble of makingas they can be used many times. 4. Hectograph, or cut from magazines, small picturesto match noun word cards. Let children place the properword below each picture. 5. Let the children sort their word cards placing eachkind in a column of its own. 6. Give each child a chart strip. Have him build thesame sentence with his word cards. 7. Place a chart strip, print side up, on the chalktrough, and have the children build the same sentenceon their desks. Later this exercise may be increased to

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