Date of Award
4-1933
Degree Type
Bachelors Essay
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department
Education
First Advisor
George E. Vander Beke
Second Advisor
William J. Grace
Abstract
Probably no subject in the school curriculum has been as widely discussed and investigated during the past decade as reading. Many notable changes have resulted from the scientific studies and scholarly discussions of the psychology of reading. The majority of teachers are keenly aware of the fact that these changes in procedure have done much to improve the efficiency of the reading program. The purpose of this paper is to present the general objectives of all reading activities, and, more specifically, the aims in each of the first three grades; to state, to discuss, and to evaluate the various methods used in attaining these objectives in the teaching of primary reading; and, to determine the effectiveness of the instruction by including a discussion of the tests that may be used and the remedial measures that should prove helpful. Because so much time and effort in the reading program of the primary grades is devoted to acquiring a mechanical command of the printed page this paper has not attempted to include any discussion of the recreatory phase of reading.
Recommended Citation
Watrous, Doris May, "Reading in the Primary Grades" (1933). Bachelors’ Theses. 1327.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bachelor_essays/1327
Included in
Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Elementary Education Commons, Language and Literacy Education Commons
Comments
A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts, Marquette University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.