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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1923 Talks About Our Winnetka Schools By CARLETON W. WASHBURNE, Superintendent, Winnetka Public Schools. Reading, spelling and arithmetic have attention from those who are studying the science of education than any other school subjects. The amount of work that has been done on reading in the last few years is ap- palling. Moving pictures have heen taken of the movements of a child's eye when reading simple mater- ial and when reading material that is more dificult. Most elaborate. counts have been made of the words most com- received more exact monly used in the English language. Professor Thorndike of Columbia uni- versity, for example, has tabulated the frequency of occurence of the 10,000 commonest words in the English langu- age covering all together a study © of four and one-half million running over words. Tests have been devised for de- termining children's vocabularies, their rate of speed in silent reading, their comprehension in silent reading, and their accuracy in oral reading. While there is still a vast amount of | work to be done in the scientific study of reading and how to teach it, the amount of knowledge on hand at present is sufficient to enable us to 're-construct our courses of study in reading on a scientific basis. Scientific Investigation The Winnetka schools have organ- ized their reading work on the basis of the scientific mvestigations. made up to the present. time. They have done their small - part in gathering data for this scientific basis, Many hours have been: spent- by Win- fiotka teachers in painstakingly counting the frequency of occurrence of words and groups of letters in primers and first. and second readers. 'The first sei- entific list of phonograms ever to be published came from the Winnetka schools. Right now alternate \Wednes- day evenings and you may see. from twenty to thirty Winnetka teachers gathered in a class room at the Horace Mann school analyzing the frequency oi occurrence of syllables in the 10,000 commonest English words so "that chil-} dren may be trained in the instant ree-; ognition of those syllables: which have!| a high frequency of occurrence. Stress Silent Reading Much more time is given iff the Win- netka schools to silent reading than to! oral reading." Parents who have been brought up under older systems some- tes times criticize the schools for this. The reasons of the change of emphasis from oral to silent reading are these: As adults, we read silently most of the time--orally only on rare occasions. Too much oral reading in school makes word readers of children. A word reader is one who reads each word to himself as if he were reading aloud. Such a person reads much more slowly than one who reads groups of words from one word to the next instead of skimming smoothly along the line. In- stead of oral reading being good train- ing for silent reading, it is, after a certain amount of skill has been reach- ed, an actual detriment. We do, however, teach oral reading also in the Winnetka Schools. It re- ceives. much less emphasis than silent reading, but no child is promoted from one grade of reading to the next until he has reached the standard ability in oral reading common to children in the same grade throughout the country: Our poorest child must equal the aver- Tene ns | 3 Hawe Clean Your EYES Healthy Eyes If they Tire, Itch, Smart, Burn or Discharge, if Sore, Irritated, * Inflamed or Granulated, use Murine. Socthes and Refreshes. Safe for Intant or Adult. At all Druggists. 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