Creative Teaching, 3 Summary and Analysis

Organic Reading

"Primer children write their own books," (59). The creative writing that is generated by the children in the morning is used as the reading material for the rest of the day. Use of the children's own writing is successful because the vocabulary and stories are all from their own lives and thus have meaning and are easy to recall. It is in the later sessions, that Sylvia asks children to spell their words out loud. At day's end, however, all the day's words are erased from the board and everyone, children and teacher alike, eagerly look forward to the next day's new words. Often there are connections from one day's words to those of the next day which serves to solidify their meanings.

The afternoon reading consists of each child reading his own story then moving on to...