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Excerpt from Midway Readers: Teachers Handbook There is no more unreasonable school method than trying to teach children to read by making them read aloud. In order to decide the proper method of teaching children to read, it is first essential to recognize clearly the difference between the processes of the mind in reading silently, and in reading aloud; between reading to gain quickly and definitely the meaning of the printed matter to be read, and reading the same matter aloud. Reading is really the process of taking into our minds the thought recorded in visible language. Reading aloud is a compound process of first recognizing the thought in the visible language, and then trying to express that thought, not in our own language, but in the language of the author of the selection. If the purpose in teaching reading were merely to train the children to read aloud, it is impossible to believe that educators would have wasted the time of the children by teaching reading at all. The reason children should be taught to read is, not that they may devote their spare time to reading aloud, but to read silently the books written by the great revealers of the past of human progress, and human thought. Why then did educators in early days try to teach reading - real reading - by the process of read ing aloud? 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.

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