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Excerpt from The Progressive Road to Silent Reading One of the most marked advances in educational theory and practice is the increasing recognition of the importance of silent reading. Until very recently reading was taught with reference almost exclusively to its oral phases - correct pronunciation, distinct enunciation, and ability to read without hesitancy. For some time, however, the more thoughtful teachers have felt that these standards failed to recognize the most essential element of good reading - the ability to extract quickly and unerringly the thought of the subject matter. Silent reading is the means which present-day thought and practice have provided to develop this skill. It is the object of this addition to The Progressive Road to Reading series to embody those types of training, based upon the findings of experimental science, that will produce efficiency in silent reading. Children do not learn to read for thought unless taught to do so by a method suitable to their mental attainments. The method presented in this series of books is the outgrowth of actual work in the classroom, and the authors' confidence in the method employed is based upon its successful classroom use. 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.