POEMS FOR ADDITIONAL WORK 271 rative poems, like 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 15, furnish good material for dramatizing. Of course suitable preparation must be made by turning the story of the poem into a prose narrative, and telling it largely in the form of conversation between the several characters involved. 7. Poems for memorizing. Any of the poems are worth memorizing. Encourage children to memorize those that especially appeal to them. Have each child memorize as many as he will voluntarily. The following brief list of books furnishes a fund of good literary material that children can use at once in the various exercises called for in their book, in oral and written reproductions, in drama tizing, in turning conversational stories into dialogue form, in modelling "original" stories after type stories, in the making of outlines, etc. These are stories that children enjoy and appreciate, and readily assimilate. They may be told or read to the children by the teacher, or children may read or tell them—after preparation—in turn. This little library provides abundance of enjoyable silent reading, as individual pupils have time and inclination. |