Excerpt from The Progressive Road to Reading It is to be remembered that before a child can express what he has heard, he must have command of the necessary words. Some children at the age of six have a vocabulary which enables them to reproduce in their own way any simple story; others at the same age seem to have almost no vocabulary. These children will not be able to reproduce at all; they will have to acquire a vocabulary, before any reproduction is required. The reading will teach new words, and the daily story telling will give facility in using them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.