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Five minutes every Sunday with this paper could be one
of the greatest gifts you will ever give your youngster
By EUGENE M. SCHWARTZ
Author of "How to Double Your Child'* Grades in School"
The author tried out his teaching methods on his son.
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cite the interest of the listener. Urge The child who cannot read cannot just a few minutes of your time.
him to use larger, more complex "main thought" questions. If he's in the higher grades, of
learn. The child who cannot read He should be able to finish the
words that he may have just learned fast, and well, and remember what course, make the questions harder.
so he won't forget them. Use this story in about one minute. And you For example: "If a roast is marked
he reads, is forever crippled in life's can test his retention of the impor-
game two or three minutes every race for achievement and success. down from $6.98 to $4.87, what per-
Sunday. tant facts of the story by asking centage of my money do I save?"
Above all other goals, you should him questions about it when he
2. "What does this newly learned work with your child at least a few Again check neatness and accuracy in
has finished. copying down the problem and pre-
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Family Weekly, January 8,1967
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