Well-sequenced phonics instruction early in first grade has been shown to reduce the incidence of reading difficulty even as it accelerates the growth of the class as a whole. Given this, it is probably best to start all children, most especially in high-poverty areas, with explicit phonics instruction.
One such song is âHow Great Thou Art.â If ever you have been down this has always been a song to sing. The story behind it is interesting. âHow Great Thou Artâ is a Christian hymn based on a Swedish poem written by Carl Gustav Boberg (1859â1940) in Sweden in 1885. The inspiration for the poem came when Boberg was walking home from church near KronobÃ¤ck, Sweden, and listening to church bells.
Crabbe's thoughts ran very much in antithesis, and the couplet suited this tendency. Crabbe, (George) Alfred Ainger. The couplet is so great that, where thou art, âThou being a poemâit is past my art. Silverpoints John Gray. Afterwards we find that meaner quill is replaced by venal quill; and the couplet about the rival translations is suppressed.