Interesting Dolch quote

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Most teachers are familiar with Edward Dolch's list of sight-words, but many aren't familiar with the book he wrote: Problems in reading, 1948. I've been reading it online, and came across this gem:

Literature does not really mean books. It means re-living the author's experience. If it be travel, we travel just as the author did. If it be history or geography, we see the people and places just as the author saw them. If it be a story, we live through the thoughts and feelings of the characters just as the author lived through them. Thus literature is not something to know or know about. It is something to experience. It is something intensely individual. What is literature for one person may not be for another. It must be to us something alive, vital, meaningful.

Pretty interesting observation!

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Interesting Dolch quote

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