Evelyn Arizpe
, Morag Styles
, and Shirley Brice Heath
have commended JJ
for her insight that learning to read requires frivolity, storytelling and diversion as well as diligence, rigour and repetition.
Arizpe, Evelyn et al. Reading Lessons from the Eighteenth Century: Mothers, Children and Texts. Pied Piper Publishing, 2006.
One of JJ
's teaching tools was a homemade nursery library dating from the 1740s: a box or teaching kit containing mobiles, verses, word chips, sets of illustrated letter cards (by which letters can...
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Arizpe, Evelyn et al. Reading Lessons from the Eighteenth Century: Mothers, Children and Texts. Pied Piper Publishing, 2006.