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In many primitive tribes, boys are shown how to draw the tracks of animals in the earth and to imitate the cries of these animals. The cry becomes the name of the beast and the track becomes the sign of the sound. The boy is being taught to read.
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Cited in Frederick Eby and Charles Flinn Arrowood, The History and Philosophy of Education, Ancient and Medieval, Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1940, p. 85.
Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942, p. 160.
William S. Gray, On Their Own in Reading, Chicago, Ill.: Scott, Foresman, 1948, p. 32.
Ivor A. Richards, How to Read a Page, New York: W. W. Norton, 1942, p. 12.
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Jennings, F.G. (1965). How Do You Read?. In: This Is Reading. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4232-8_7
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