Preschool and Kindergarten Beginning Reader, Smart Kidz College

Lessons in this text are enough to get started teaching a child to read and write. Each lesson begins with vocabulary words, then consists of printed text for reading and copying. SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS Book A may be used in teaching reading by any of the methods in common use; but it is especially adapted to the Phonics Method, the Word Method, or a combination of the two. I. Phonics Method.--First teach the elementary sounds and their representative, as they occur in the lessons; then, the formation of words by the combination of these sounds. For instance, teach the student to identify the characters a, o, n, d, g, r, and th, in Box B of Lesson 1, as the representatives of certain elementary sounds; then teach him to form the words in Box A of the lesson, then other words, as nag, on, and, etc. Use a similar method in teaching the succeeding lessons. After having read a few lessons in this manner, begin to teach the spelling of words, and require the groups, "a man," "the man," "a pen," to be read as a good reader would pronounce single words. II. Word Method.--Teach the student to identify at sight the words in Box A of the reading exercises, and to read these exercises without hesitation. After having read a few lessons in this manner, begin to teach the spelling of words. III. Word Method and Phonics Method Combined.--Teach the student to identify words and read sentences, as above. Having read a few lessons in this manner, begin to use the Phonics Method, combining it with the Word Method, by first teaching the words in each lesson as words; then the elementary sounds, and spelling.