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Excerpt from Action Reading: A Supplementary Method of Teaching, Beginners to Read Action reading, so called, is a system for the earliest stage of learning to read. Its chief virtue lies in the fact that it easily secures intense attention, and intensity of attention is a necessary condition and measure of the degree of any kind of learning. As a method, it is not intended as a substitute for the usual primer-methods - phonics, word or sen tence learning, etc. - but it is a system to accompany them, offering the relief of change. It is especially adapted for pupils who are just entering school and are finding their energies for action curbed by the requirements of the school to sit still. By easily securing their attention and by offering opportunity for movements, it is a suitable exercise for beginners. Secondly, it will be found especially adapted for foreign children who do not understand English, and for backward pupils whose attention it is usually difficult to secure. The commands are written upon the board for class action, and these foreign or backward children will first imitate their fellows, but gradually will learn to associate a given act with its written command. For successful use of this system, it is essential that the teacher should have a clear comprehension of the dis tinction in principle between it and the other methods of teaching read ing. When a child comes to school, he already has an oral language. The usual methods proceed to translate the new written language into the forms of spoken language by which the pupil understands. Action reading passes directly from the written language to the understanding. It is not translation into oral language. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.