Excerpt from How to Teach Reading: Manual for the Use of Teachers, to Accompany Monroe"s Primary Reading Charts and Monroe"s New Primer
To the lover of childhood nothing: is more delightful than to teach little ones "how to read;" but in order to ensure that success in teaching which would give pleasure to the children and satisfaction to the teacher, one must call common sense to her aid and free herself from the old traditions concerning the first steps in reading. No wonder the little ones hated to go to school, when they were expected to learn the whole alphabet before reading a word! There is a surer and a better way.
This little manual has been prepared hoping that it will aid earnest teachers in making the first road to knowledge an easy, pleasant one. Especially does the writer hope that some assistance is herein given whereby teachers may clearly understand the very important difference between the sounds of letters and their names ; for he who teaches by sight alone (or the word-method) not only robs the child of the advantage to be gained by learning through two of the senses instead of through one, but also fails to arouse in him that self-reliance in overcoming difficulties which is the secret of true progress.
Do not think that you can gain time by turning at once to Chart 4 (page 11 in New Primer).
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