CATHERINE T. BRYCE,

ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.

NEWSON & COMPANY
NEW YORK

CONTENTS

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II. Teaching Pupils to Study

III. Conversation: Questions and Answers

IV. Dramatizing the Fable, "Grand Tusk and Nimble "

V. Oral Reproduction of the Story

VI. Finishing a Story

VII. Oral Reproduction and Completion of Uncompleted

Story.

VIII. Telling Original Stories

IX. Reading a Story in a Picture

Supplementary Work

X. More Picture Stories

XI. Learning to Describe

XII. Games of Description

XIII. Getting the Story from the Poem, "The Mountain

III. Conversation and Dramatizing.

II. Studying the Story of the Linden

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VI. Sentences, Capitals, Statements, and Periods

IV. Oral Reproduction of the Story of the Linden

V. Telling True Stories.

Period

Period

VII. Copying Sentences to Learn the Use of Capitals and

VIII. Studied Dictation for Drill in Use of Capitals and

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IX. Unstudied Dictation to Test the Use of Capitals

and Period

X. Questions and the Question Mark .

XI. Copying Questions to Learn the Use of Capitals

and the Question Mark

XII. Using Capitals and the Period

XVI. Studying the Poem, "Spring Waking"

XVII. Part Reading and Dramatizing the Poem

XVIII. Learning to Tell a Story

XIX. Oral Reproductions

CHAPTER THREE

I. Reading the Story, "Mabel and the Fairy Folk"

II. Dramatizing "Mabel and the Fairy Folk"

VI.

Copying a Story

XVI. Studying a Poem.

XVII. Writing a Stanza from Memory

CHAPTER FOUR.

I.

Study and Oral Reproduction of the Fable, "The

Four Oxen "

Supplementary Work.

II. Their and There

Supplementary Work.

III. Writing the Story, "The Four Oxen "

Supplementary Work.

IV. The Use of Capitals in Writing the Names of Per-

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X. Dictation to Drill and Test the Use of Too, To,

XI. Enlarging a Story for Dramatizing; Pupils' Prepara-

tory Study

XII. Enlarging a Story for Dramatizing; Class Exercise

XIII. Dramatizing the Story, "The First Buttercups "

Supplementary Work.

XIV. Picture Stories

Supplementary Work.

XV. More Picture Stories

CHAPTER FIVE

II. Studying the Story, "The Little White Flower "