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Show HANDBOOK FOR 48 in your TEACHERS OF INTERPRETATION possession that which you give. Until we have good have teachers of reading in the grades, the high school teacher will to habits and ideals new of shoulder the forming reading as taught in the elementary will soon dawn system. We hope earnestly, that that millenial day will school the prepare pupils for when the reading of elementary and school the college. But until that the speech discipline of high of oral expression teacher or school college day arrives, the high been mastered in have well as could must teach steps which just these if steps are not covered the elementary grades. Furthermore, be have to will gone over in college. in high school, the ground of used material The literary necessity, be of a grade suited must, and the understanding of the pupils, but to the age and to grade advancement the are the underlying principles same, regardless of actor must the and reader the Even professional or achievement. are or fundamental merely they principles have mastered the their masters of profession. "journeymen" not enter high "Get, Hold, Give." High school and college students read and to how spon speak school and college having forgotten communication of natural impulses taneously. They have lost the the im through voice and action. Moreover, they have been given more little do to able are pression that they can read when they not always pronounce correctly. than to pronounce words, and "To 'get' the Clark says that reading is a three-fold, process: 1 A grave mis the thought." thought, 'hold' the thought, and 'give' that of permitting the student take made by elementary teachers is to forget all about the after he has denoted the word or thought, text. They do not realize that meaning or feeling when reading the both thought getting the thought is only prefatory to the holding of and feeling until the conception can be given to someone else. Re gardless of the many hundred times it may be necessary to practice in order to gain the skill to give the text to class or audience, the will to get that thought pupil, or the professional, must always until it is given. it hold Interpretation is a and spontaneously, translation from the dead printed page into living reality. Litera The printed page is otherwise histure was written to be voiced. responsibility to correct 1 the weakness of the How to Teach Reading. |
