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Show GENERAL SUGGESTIONS TO THE INSTRUCTOR 59 be prepared by reading silently first for the purpose of getting the content, then the pupil should read, and re-read the lesson ad infinitum as a test of complete understanding and to orally, gain the power to deliver the ideas to others. The better the prep aration, the better the development. I have known a number of teachers of oral expression who have been nearly mobbed by pupils, their particularly of the junior high schools, because they required students to study a reading lesson. "N 0 one else had ever de manded before any preparation for reading! It was unheard of!" The next day, the students should be called on to read from their books, at their seats. If the paragraph needs illumination the pupils' reading or denotation-a fact which will be shown by , be made until -question and discussion of the content should the selection is thoroughly understood, and the pupil knows how the lines should be read, even if he cannot do it. It will take a themselves should good deal of practice to read well. The pupils hunt up all historical settings and references. N ever commit to knows how a selection until the pupil understands it and it should be read understandingly. Then practice to be able to the thought, and soon the student will not need the book. memory give Don't try consciously to memorize a selection. To memorize the words and afterwards study the reading is to put "the cart before the horse." The great Italian actor, Salvini, studied "King Lear" six years before he tried to memorize it. it, Teachers of reading are apt to discuss the printed page, analyze denote it, and then both the teacher and pupil rest, thinking that their task is accomplished. This is merely the preparation for We must also never yester reading-not reading to' create the emotion and ideas of the The will denotation. day's it will be found author, must always be the motivation of speech; that the more we practice in this way, the greater becomes our broader and more expansive grows our power to feel, and the and body always truly indicate whether The think. .face to power itself. or not the emotional reaction is voice with its complex rest on present, and at the same time the elements will definitely tell the mental The proficient teacher of reading on. processes which are going for the evidences cannot be deceived even by the cleverest pupil, |
