There are increasing numbers of children with little or no English entering English speaking mainstream lessons. This often leaves them with unique frustrations due to limited English language proficiency and disorientation. Teachers often feel unable to cater sufficiently for these new arrivals. "Teaching English as an Additional Language Ages…

This textbook is targeted at educators teaching students in the fifth year seeking to help pupils take an interest in the quality of their English and speak more correctly, more effectively, more agreeably, and to write with due regard for the essentials of good form. Provision is made for individual differences in pupil ability and achievement.…

This textbook for the fifth grade seeks to help pupils take an interest in the quality of their English and speak more correctly, more effectively and more agreeably, and to write with due regard for the essentials of good form. Until the language lesson is understood to be distinctively a lesson in craftsmanship, it will contribute little or…

This textbook for the sixth grade seeks to help pupils take an interest in the quality of their English and speak more correctly, more effectively and more agreeably, and to write with due regard for the essentials of good form. Until the language lesson is understood to be distinctively a lesson in craftsmanship, it will contribute little or…

This textbook is the last volume in the Pathways in Science series, designed to meet the demands of the modern tendency to introduce science as an essential part of the elementary-school curriculum by presenting a course of carefully graded problems in science for Grades I to VI. "Our Earth and Its Story" has been designed to assist the…

This textbook is part of a series designed to give an elementary school child all the arithmetical power necessary to cope with the situations of common everyday life. This book covers fundamental elements of arithmetical manipulation and thought. Thus, a child who goes no farther than the fourth or fifth grade will be so familiar with essentials…

This textbook is second in a series of science readers adapted to Secondary Grades comprising pupils who are in their third and fourth years of school work. The lessons are progressive, each one of the series being built on the facts taught in the previous lesson. Moreover, the subject matter--the properties of bodies; the nature, growth, and…

This textbook is the third in a series of science readers adapted to Secondary Grades comprising pupils who are in their third and fourth years of school work. The lessons are progressive, each one of the series being built on the facts taught in the previous lesson. Moreover, the subject matter--the properties of bodies; the nature, growth, and…

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 textbook is a fifth-year reader. The lessons in this volume have been prepared and arranged with a view towards several ends: to interest the young reader; to cultivate a taste for the best style of literature as regards both thought and expression; to point the way to an acquaintance with good books; to appeal to the pupil's sense of duty,…

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 a fourth-year supplementary reader. Stories include "A Christmas Dream," "The Skipping Shoes," "The Fairy Box," and "A Hole in the Wall."

This textbook is first 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. Part One of this book is for use as a supplement to the informal work of grade two, and as a basic text in grade…

This article reviews the new Grolier Student Encyclopedia, intended for grades three through eight. Good middle-level readers might become frustrated with this source, but primary and intermediate students, middle-level students reading below grade level, and English language learners of any age will find the style of information presentation…

The "Child-Library Readers, Book Four," is planned to provide abundant material, rich in interest, for extending the literature course of the fourth grade. Schools using "The Elson Readers, Book Four," will appreciate the total absence of duplicated selections in the present volume. Moreover, the fresh, unhackneyed nature of…