READING IN SCHOOLS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 124, 30 May 1927, Page 10

READING IN SCHOOLS

(By TetoaraphJ. (Special to "The Evepiw Pert.")' -

Ti Vii PALMBRSTON Ny This D»y< 7 v ■■•lhat the average.child read* :much> jio» ... slowly was an opinion expressed by" Mr;- = JJ. J.. .Lam bourne, senior inspector, of the Wanganui Education Board, when address*, ing the Manawatu branch of the Educational Institute on Saturday. The re- ■ mark was responsible for a considerable amount of discussion. > / .• „ •'•'"'' *, J _In support of his contention, Ininecior ' Lambpurne said that the rapid readeTafe sorbed many more ideas than the dow one because he gathered more. The alow ~< reader did not necessarily comprehend what he was reading any the better ' ■'"' In the discussion that followed theopin- » ion was expressed that it wa» difficult t» get children to read faster.unlew their *■ pronounciation was faultless -. ';V.. - T a Inspector Lambourne said lie realiiod* "; that reading must be alow at firrt, lw|- ''■■-■ once the chQdren could pronounce prop*, s y'IHV "t lt 1 S ho"ld t speeded up. * :^'' l,^ f•-\ de Berry "aid he was fi . little alarmed at inspectot'. «u«es- Itfu ?f jil* S' gU Produce r«nhß^S ' would, hardly like to see/ The ©bjeet;in , reading aloud was to share witi, 2SS - somethmg that-was writfen and it :*wi " often the teacher's duty to read to hw , class, if the children were coin* to b« ; interested in what wds read to tnem, ften , the reading must l>e sufficiently «IoV fof the dull child to take. up all .the idea* v expressed. With regard to silent reading ; however, he was quite in agreementHtha* * there was not nearly cuough in •choaW .; and saent reading was. really quite 'a« ;•' important as oral reading. • v -l'^.:.- j