The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-04-12
METHODS OF PRIMARY READING.
XIII,
The Pollard Synthetic Method, Continued.
ny WILLIAM NOETLING.

must learn 1t, mamma, and
teach the baby to say it with me. You
know taught her to NEW like cat.
"Well, Johnny, | think can help
you remember this These drawings
are called letters. / have made them
eight times. Now as draw the
curve (breve) above each letter,
want you to open your lips and say a
(short soundD See, have placed
them on the ladder Emusic LADDER /
have drawn. You may think of them
as little boys wearing turned-up caps
and climbing up.
why do you make them that
way1
Because l want you to sing them
with me.
"' But the ladder ?
"That shows that the voice must 90
ap, and one step at time. Here is
picture of what l call breve cap.
Observe that the rim is curved.
shall not draw the entire cap above
the voice letter, but just this little
curve, and whenever l place this
curve above, it shows that this letter
belongs to the family of MIR. A.
Short. All his little children wear
breve caps. When you see this "a
shorty, just think of little boy climb
,ng up ladder and making noise
like young lamb every time he puts
his loot upon one of these rounds.
&c Does he stay up there, mamma,
or turn and come down p
"You must think of him as coming
down in the same way /; one step at
time.
" "And say (short) each time
Certainly, my son. only speak
of little boy climbing up and down
TO lead you to understand that your
voice must 60 up and down, just as
it does when we sing do re, mi, up
and down the scale. Now let us
sing"
The sounds of the letters are learn.
ed by singing them up and down the
musical scale Qadder).
Ladders. Let the first busy work
be the drawing of ladders with eight
rounds. The teacher may count, as
each round is drawn, in the presence
of the pupils, 'one,' two, 'three,'
-four five &c
Show that these rounds must b.
placed at equal distances from each
other. Call pupils to the board to
draw ladders, after which ask them to
re produce these ladders upon their
states.
For the lesson following, print a
upon each round of the ladder YOU
have drawn. Show that the letter
must be placed exactly on the round
not in the space between. Sound a
short as you draw the first breve above
(put on its breve cap) and afterwards
ask pupils to sound as you place the
breve above each vowel (Require
the marking of capital letters). After
this letter has been presented upon
the ladders 1.-TWO Of which will be need
ed for the small and the capital letters),
sing up and down the new ladders and
review those made upon the pre-
vious day."
"Pupils must be made to under
stand clearly that they are to sound
as they mark.
Windo,c and Letter Songs. " AT
ter presenting three letters IA, m, NJ
by means of the ladders, teach pupils
to draw a window. They must first
draw, without the drapery, window
sash with six panes. Draw first upon
the blackboard, afterwards upon their
states.
"The teacher should draw the first
window directly under the ladders arc
let it remain there for review singing.
Print upon these window. panes the
three letters above mentioned, and
sing to the air of 'Thumbklns,' found
upon the 9th page Of the songs:
Letter one is a;
Letter two is A;
Three and four are m and NJ
Five and six are n and N.
Chorus: Sound and sing, ye merry
little ones:
"A; m NJ; n n.
(Place the breve above the vowel,
as this letter is printed on the
board)"
"Also print letter songs and leave
upon the board for daily singing as
to the air of Yankee Doodle, sing
placing the diacritical marks above
each vowel):
a, m, a, m, a, nj, a, m;
n, |, n, |, n, /;
v, W, v, W, v, W, v, W:
m, n, !, a, v, n.
"Do not fail to let the pointer
touch each letter, as pupils sing. As
soon as the consonant sounds and the
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