This teachers' manual is to be used with the textbook "Better English: Grade Six" by Jeschke, Potter, and Gillet. It includes notes that explain briefly the first principles of language study and teaching, and suggestions for the conduct of the individual lessons. [For "Better English: Grade Six," see ED623251.]

This textbook is targeted at educators teaching students in the sixth year seeking to establish correct written and spoken English. The major objectives of the year include the following: (1) a full development of the sentence sense, including the ability to analyze commonly used grammatical constructions; (2) reasonable skill in writing sentences…

This textbook is a sixth-year reader in a series of readers prepared for the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, now recognized as the crucial years in gaining technique in silent reading. The series objective is to direct silent reading, to motivate oral reading, to develop the reading habit, and to broaden the child's outlook on life. In their…

This textbook is a sixth-year reader. The pupil who is in his sixth year at school should be able to read quite well. He is now prepared to devote more and more attention to literary criticism. The selections in this book are of a highly interesting character and illustrate almost every variety of English composition. To assist in their…

The purpose of this "Sixth Reader" is to provide, for both oral and silent reading, an abundance of matter that is of fine literary quality and at the same time is fresh and well adapted to the pupils' powers of understanding and appreciation. The suggestions for study at the back of the book are designed to give information a thoughtful…

This textbook is a reader developed on the principle that the expanding life of a child as a citizen of the world demands acquaintance with a considerable portion of the world's best thought as expressed in literature. The general method of presenting these classics rests upon the assumption that literature is addressed to the heart and to the…

This textbook presents a sixth-grade composition course stressing the different forms of language exercises--letters, narratives, descriptions, and expositions. This series of books aims to help the teacher by providing a systematic arrangement of subject-matter, thus saving the labor of searching for suitable material and, at the same time,…

This textbook presents an arithmetic course that seeks to adapt the subject matter to the experiences, interests, and immediate needs of children, and to provide means for a mastery of the formal phases of arithmetic through more scientifically organized drills. This series consists of three books: Primary (ED622333), Intermediate, and Advanced…

This textbook aims to develop all the mathematical power needed by the average person in the accurate control of his affairs. The purpose has been to teach first the most important topics of arithmetic and last those least frequently used. In consequence, the teacher may feel that the child who is leaving school at the end of any particular grade…

This teacher's manual represents the third of a three-book series. Part One focuses on the sixth grade and Part Two focuses on the seventh grade. The work of each year is divided into 10 chapters, each consisting of approximately 18 lessons. This arrangement allows flexibility and enables the teacher to repeat lessons that are difficult for the…

This textbook is a teacher's manual for The Boys' and Girls' Readers series. Attention is directed to the following features of this intermediate series: To widen the experiences of boys and girls, a rich and varied content is furnished in the readers, organized according to dominating fields of thought; and to provide a truly efficient working…

This textbook is second in a series of arithmetic books that apply the principles discovered by the psychology of learning, by experimental education, and by the observation of successful school practice, to the teaching of arithmetic. Parts One and Two are intended for grades five and six respectively. Part One provides for mastery of the four…

This English textbook aims to foster and guide children's natural interests. The material is organized in three divisions, designed for use in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, respectively. The offering for the fourth year is greater in amount than that for the fifth and sixth years, in the expectation that some of it, if not adapted to the…

This textbook is part of a series that aims to develop all the mathematical power needed by the average person in the accurate control of his affairs. The purpose has been to teach first the most important topics of arithmetic and last those least frequently used. In addition to giving the child all the fundamental skills of calculation, room has…

This textbook covers two years' work intended for grades five and six. The book is divided into approximately 160 carefully planned lessons for each year's work. These lessons are grouped into chapters, each composed of a series of related units that center on a common theme, providing work for a period equivalent in general to a school month. The…