Helps in Teaching Reading #252218

Good reading does not then as Dogberry says and as many persons believe, come by nature. It is not merely, or even chiefly, a matter of fluent utterance, agreeable voice, and musical modulations, invaluable as all these natural gifts, when found, undoubtedly are. Nor can it be taught by hap-hazard appeals in which the pupil is urged to imitate the emphasis and inflections of his teacher. On the contrary, it depends on definite, ascertainable principles, which, when clearly formulated, progressively arranged, and suitably illustrated, may be taught by the same meth ods that are followed in other departments of in ductive knowledge, and with the same assurance of determinate success.