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udoupuaiy some of he excita- ,.gt sroatad h the United states ' Rudolf FIBICEII" book. why Mun, curt Read boiled over are border. Understandahly I0 "me his answer to this vital issue involved I method of teaohins mm; used here also. to some uiqertlrleach put the Home for reading failures on the use of the mm or word recognition method in place of the old sound or phonic mmod, But after a cooling off pgfiod the author's assumptions "re questioned and his conclu- dons as well. Did all children learn to read under the old phonic method? If so why was it ever

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'bti'I:zdoki.ow of that the” were always pooxarildcrs here -- wen as in the states. But here .5 um-e those who could not earn dropped out of-sphpol in the third or fourth grade, at sooner. yaw they are kept in school, willy nllly and remedial reading b not a reflection on the teaching methods but a necessity for slow learner under any system.

But the phonic method was not entirely satisfactory even for the ”good reader". Too often the lat- ter could sound off words they did not understand, nor did they get the meaning of the entire Hung; with the growing emphasis on the child's world an effort was marle to surround words with .5 many associations as pos- sible. "Round" became not a ser- In of Jlllldh but applied to a ball. a box. other objects the child brought to school and could tee and feel.

However, on investigation it was iiscuvcred that the old A.B.C and round method had never been banished from the school-room. llkllllul teachers used this where l was most helpful and combined it with the word method if that made it easier "for the individual

child. IncidentaiL, I spoke to an outstanding Island teacher, recent- ly retired. who cldmed that she always used has own Judgment is round to the teachlnl methods she adopted. t'One of the troubles nowadays is that teaclie 3 are not trusted enough. The course of study is made too rigid and the teacher is expected to follow it exactly. Good teaching can only be developed if good teachers are chosen and left to their own in- itiatlve."

As to Mr. FIesch's implication that our Johnnies can't read as well as the Johnnies of the past,

tensive tests of material used many years ago and submitted to modern pupils showed that, "mod- ern pupils came out on top-many with impressively wide margins.”

Why then, are there so many reading failures, if the particular method used isn't the cause? The one reason referred to above ac- counts for a great many. Edu- cators say that children may get along quite well until they reach the middle grades, and then since they stay on in school, their lack of mental ability shows itself. Fifty per cent of the children with an L0. below 100 will need help -in reading. says one leading ed- ucator. They were no problem

so early. There are physical defects-of the eye. ear. nervous system, that ac-

staying on in school. brings these to the foreground.

And ol course. the various dis- tractions of modern living makes the child less interested in read- ing. Parents read less and so do their children. That is they read less of books that take real read- ing skill. The Island teacher 1 consulted (above) spoke wiatfully of the days when there were only books of merit to be found in the home library. Well, we can't have

those days back again-or perhaps we may, in the future.

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