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Oral Reading In The Intermediate Grades, Mildred Gudex

Bachelors’ Theses

By silent reading we mean the single process of getting the thought from the printed page; by oral reading we mean the getting and the giving of the thought from the printed page. Oral reading is, accordingly, a much more complex process than silent reading. Silent reading involves the recognition of the symbol - that is, the word - and the as sociation of the word with the idea or getting the thought. Oral reading involves the recognition of the symbol; the as sociation of the word with the idea - getting the thought; and the vocal utterance of the …

The Teaching Of Oral Language In Grades I To Viii, Elizabeth M. Weisend

Bachelors’ Theses

The work of promoting good speaking and of obtaining accuracy in the expression of thought is one of the most important aims to be accomplished in teaching. The ability of the child to use accurately his mother-tongue in speaking is of great social and cultural value. It helps him to adapt himself socially to his environment and to think and express himself clearly. It gives him confidence in himself and thereby, ease in appearing before an audience, through his fluency in conversation gained by an ever-increasing vocabulary and a knowledge and use of correct English.

An Experiment In Remedial Reading In A Second Grade, Harriett M. Gaffney

Bachelors’ Theses

Every teacher finds a great range of capacities and abilities in her room. She finds that although some children comprehend what they read, they read much too slowly. She finds that others may read rapidly but not get the thought from what they read. She finds that some may e able to follow printed directions well but are inefficient in getting the complete thought from narrative material.

The New School In The Upper Grades, Selma F. Tonn

Bachelors’ Theses

The chief equipment a good teacher needs is a sympathetic understanding of child nature and child interests, and common sense or tact in the choice and use of methods of teaching suited to them. Anyone who has often seen the happy eager faces of all the children in a class of thirty-five or more can speak with authority. To discover the particular interests of each child; to choose those which have broad, various, and valuable educational opportunities, which can serve as ’’leads” to further interests and wider experience; to give children experience in living as it is natural to them …

Individuality And Provisions Made For It In The Primary Grades, Justine Kupecky

Bachelors’ Theses

The writer always has felt that the school can never rise to its best until it provides for the fullest possible development of each individual child. A subject has been selected so that a clearer understanding of the changes going on toward the fulfillment of this ideal may be had.

An attempt to defend individuality has been made and by giving many aims of modern education, it has been shown that individuality is the goal of all education. Facts have been gathered to show why modern education is not reaching its goal.

What has actually been done for the individuality …

Taking Care Of Individual Differences In Reading In The Primary Grades, Stella Peterson

Bachelors’ Theses

It is the purpose of this contribution: 1. To show the need of taking care of individual differences in reading. 2. To show the causes for individual differences in reading, and 3. To show the manner in which to take care of individual differences in reading.

The Need Of Vocational Guidance, John Wood

Bachelors’ Theses

The aim of this study is to show there is need of some competent, responsible, agency to assist individuals in the selection of a vocation and to render further assistance, if necessary, to the individual after the choice of a vocation has been made.

Literature For Little Children, Marie A. Ruberg

Bachelors’ Theses

Working in the capacity of one whose duty it is to make the five and six year old child's experience deeper, wider, and more satisfying through the medium of literature the writer has realized that there is an inexhaustible amount of knowledge and appreciation to acquire in order to have a background required for intelligently evaluating literature to be used and for effectively inculcating appreciation for that selection into the children.

Visual Instruction, Harry C. Haufschild

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to show the value of visual aids in education. It does not agree with those who claim that the percentages of our knowledge gained through the different senses show that the sense of eight is responsible tor eighty-seven per cent.

Reading Readiness, May Katherine Cooke

Bachelors’ Theses

As reading is of all the primary subjects the most crucial and the basis upon which first-grade and second-grade promotion is determined, a study of Reading Readiness is of the utmost importance. This essay is an attempt to describe those influencing factors which prepare pupils for the function of reading in the primary grades.

Modern methods and materials used in the preparation of pupils tor reading have been described and discussed and special reference made to the work accomplished along these lines 1n the kindergartens of the Milwaukee Public Schools.

Colonnade May 23, 1933, Colonnade

Colonnade

No abstract provided.

The Oracle 05/23/1933, Gorham Normal School

Oracle, The (1931-1941)

"The China Shop" Presented by Boys' and Girls' Glee Clubs -- Gorham Students Attend Convention at New York City During Easter Vacation -- State Commissioner of Education, Dr. Bertram E. Packard, Sends Message to Gorham Normal School -- Alumni and Exchange -- Athletics -- Industrial Arts at Gorham

The Ursinus Weekly, May 22, 1933, Dorothy E. Horne, Dwight L. Gregory, George Leslie Omwake

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Dr. John R. Murlin will speak at graduation • Council representatives chosen by men students • Grizzlies lose return game to Villanova • Athletic club to meet • Trackmen lose final dual track meet to St. Joseph's • Beethoven's "Mass in D" to be presented as oratorio • Complete program planned for commencement week • Grizzlies take fifth place in annual conference meet • Ursinus educators plan summer trip to Europe • Keen competition for new students among colleges • Senior girls to be guests of Woman's Club at dinner • Ursinus Woman's Club will give tea for senior girls …

A Comparative Analysis Of State Courses Of Study In Character Education, Robert Burnett

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The purpose of this study is to determine what the state Departments of Education have done to carry out definite programs in character education in elementary and secondary schools. This problem is limited to special courses of study in character education issued by certain State Departments of Education. According to the United States Bureau of Education at Washington, D. c., only six of the forty-eight states have prepared special courses of study in this field. In this study a comparative analysis is made of these courses of study as to character traits and objectives, methods of procedure in developing the …

Colonnade May 16, 1933, Colonnade

Colonnade

No abstract provided.

Tomahawk, May 16, 1933, College Of The Holy Cross

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Colonnade May 9, 1933, Colonnade

Colonnade

No abstract provided.

Student Life (1933 May 6), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Administration Acts on the Student Petitions
• Play Day Schedule Made for High School
• "Hearts and Blossoms" Given at Troutville
• Endowment Day Plans Are Under Way
• The New Spinster Appears To-Day
• Miss Fanona Knox Visits Chicago
• Class Officers Are Elected for 1933-34
• Peyton University Crowns Betty Neal
• May Day Celebrated in Norse Pageant
• Jean Bird Gives Recital Broadcasts Continue
• The Administration Generosity
• Case for Non-Segregation
• Campus Crumbs
• Alumnae News
• Riders Win Awards in Horse Show
• Society
• Goethe Film Shown Here Again

Hollins Student Life (1933 May 6), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Administration Acts on the Student Petitions: Arrangements Made for Foreign Study
• Play Day Schedule Made for High School
• “Hearts and Blossoms” Given at Troutville
• Endowment Day Plans Are Underway
• The New Spinster Appears Today
• Miss Fanona Knox Visits Chicago
• Class Officers Are Elected for 1933-34: Riding Club Offices Filled
• Peyton University Crowns Betty Neal
• May Day Celebrated in Norse Pageant: Page Rudd Reigns as Queen Gudrid
• Jean Bird Gives Recital, Broadcasts Continue
• Hollins Student Life Staff Staff
• Campus Crumbs
• Alumnae News
• Scenes From May Day (pictures)
• Riders Win Awards in Horse Show
• Society
• Goethe Film Shown Here …

Tomahawk, May 2, 1933, College Of The Holy Cross

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Taylor University Catalog 1933, Taylor University

Undergraduate Catalogs

The 1933 academic catalog of Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Brown And Gold - 1933, Western State Teachers College

Western Michigan University Yearbooks (1906-1985)

CONTENTS • Scenes • Administration • Classes • Activities • Features • Organizations • Athletics • Humor

A Study Of The Reading Habits Of U.S.A.C. Freshmen And Senior Students, Leah D. Merrill

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This investigation is a study of the reading habits of freshmen and senior students of the Utah State Agricultural College. It deals with the amount of reading, kind of reading, and reading practices of these students.

Campus Comment, May 1933, Bridgewater State Teachers College

The Comment

No abstract provided.

Survey Of Reading Activities In The Intermediate Grades, Marie Serio

Bachelors’ Theses

The aim of this thesis is to present a survey of the characteristic intermediate grades reading activities. An analysis of the interests, habits and attitudes is given in the first chapter. Specific objectives are treated in the following chapter, while the third chapter deals with type lessons. Remedial Work and Testing is the purpose of the next chapter. The levels of achievement are outlined in the last chapter. Opinions secured by experts in reading have been used in this thesis . Books and magazines, secured at the Milwaukee Public Library and the Marquette University Library have furnished the writer with …

Health Education In The Primary Grades, Aurelia S. Taterczynski

Bachelors’ Theses

It seems that the schools of today have the real responsibility and task of teaching health education, so it has become a part of the educational program of almost every school system, as a result many schools are now equipped with medical and dental clinics. Undernourished children are aided in maintaining a balanced diet. School lunch-rooms furnish wholesome foods. Physical examinations and. home visits from school nurses constitute part of the program. Then, too, the teacher has become responsible, not only, for the training of the minds of children, but also for the health and welfare of the children in …

Mastering Reading Difficulties In The Primary Grades Of Rural And State Graded Schools, Johanna S. Gnauck

Bachelors’ Theses

Many investigations have recently teen made in various phases of reading problems and reading difficulties, lost of this research work has, however, been undertaken in experimental schools or in school systems of considerable size, equipped with capable, experienced, well qualified, and adequately compensated instructors, supervisors, and school administrators.

The Training Of The Gifted Child, Julia Margaret Lowery

Bachelors’ Theses

The fact that every school population has its quota of children of superior mental endowment is no longer questioned. The fact that they present a real and challenging problem to school administrators and teachers is everywhere accepted.

The "New Deal" In Physical Education, William J. Luoma

Bachelors’ Theses

It would have been an interesting study to investigate the history of physical training, and to trace the different opinions, events, and epochs which have shaped and characterized the development of this important phase of education. The development of these different exercises and the influence they would have upon the development of the people would also have been an interesting study.

Teaching Of History In The Junior High School, Edith M. Reynolds

Bachelors’ Theses

No abstract provided.