Well does the writer remember when he first heard this phrase. An old teacher said: "I see, in talking with your children, that you have taught them to read pictures!"
In a recent number of The Ohio Educational Monthly and National Teacher is an essay on this subject, worth reading. To read a picture is to tell what is in it. Are there birds or children, ask your little pupil how many. Let him tell you what else he can see: what the man is doing; whether the scene is in the country or city, in winter or summer,—and so on. Soon the child will be able to make a little story out of a picture; and he will be helped to do so by such questions as these: Where do you suppose the girl is going? What is the dog's name?
If you have children, read pictures with them. It will do you good, as well as teach the little ones to think. You will enjoy the hour, and so will they; and the influence will endure.
