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Self-Help Activity Exercises For Developing Independence In Reading, Ole Mcdowell Jul 1963

Self-Help Activity Exercises For Developing Independence In Reading, Ole Mcdowell

Graduate Student Research Papers

These activity exercises are based upon the premise that many elementary teachers are plagued with considerable confusion and insecurity in the area of teaching phonics. They persistently state that one of their greatest instructional needs is to understand phonics, and to know how to use phonics.


An Examination Of The Writings Of Margaret Wise Brown With Special Reference To Uses Of Fantasy And Reality, Virginia Schonborg Jan 1963

An Examination Of The Writings Of Margaret Wise Brown With Special Reference To Uses Of Fantasy And Reality, Virginia Schonborg

Graduate Student Independent Studies

Here, in this section, where we shall examine the idea of fantasy in relation to the particular way that Margaret Wise Brown employed it in her writing, these five lines from "The Dream Book" epitomize her point of view. Unlike many writers of the sensory perception school, she does not present only the recording of "plink, plink, the water in the sink." Her own particular view sees the world as it is; is almost in love with it. Yet she seems to see the world with a sensitivity to the magic in it, as we shall see further on discussing …


Preparing The Pre-School Child For School, O. Evans Scott Jan 1963

Preparing The Pre-School Child For School, O. Evans Scott

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

Home "teaching" can cause a child to be confused and unhappy when he first starts school, says Mrs. Scott in this article which tells how to give young children a sound basis for a happy and successful start at school.