Excerpt from How to Teach Beginning Reading
Every step that they take along this road under the teacher's guidance is playful and delightful. At the same time each step is a part of a most systematic and progressive scheme of learning, all parts of which have been definitely planned in advance. Yet so thoroughly are the various teaching processes adapted to the children's instinctive interests and activities that delight in learning and systematic progress go hand in hand.
Much incidental reading connected with studies of home and farm. - Since much of the reading in Miss Hardy's room was intimately connected with other activities of the children, it is desirable to get an idea of the general course of study in the first grade in order to understand the principles of teaching upon which the reading was based. The work of the first two or three months in this first grade was very much like that of an advanced kindergarten group, plus specific training in reading and number. Like a progressive kindergarten, the first grade introduced children to a study of home and community life through play, this being the first step in a progressive study of social life, which, as it continues through the grades, develops into the history, geography, and civics of the later years. The first social unit studied was the home. The children talked about the rooms which they had in their own homes and the purposes that each served, using such sentences as, "We cook in the kitchen. We eat in the diningroom. We sleep in the bedroom," etc. Playrooms were constructed out of blocks or paper or cardboard. Each child chose a room, planned the necessary furniture, constructed it, described his plans and his work, etc. The little sentences quoted were used incidentally for reading material.
The study of the home was followed by a study of farm life. The farmyard, its buildings, occupants, etc., were constructed in a sand pan after making a large plan with labels for the house, barn, road, etc. The story of the farmer bringing his crops to town or to the railroad for shipment was developed. Some of the products were followed into the grocery store which was studied for a few days and linked up with the activities of the home.
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