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 nothing to the improvement of the pupil's speaking or writing. It is this fresh and fruitful understanding of the problem that the present textbook stresses in every lesson. To teach language is to teach a craft or an art. Its key word is practice -- practice applied, on the one hand, to helping the pupil overcome undesirable speech habits, the corrective aspect, and, on the other hand, to helping him build a speech technique, the constructive aspect. Throughout the book the effort has been to realize the new point of view which alone can make language teaching effectual and to give that point of view adequate expression in a new procedure. The generous Appendix following the lessons supplies additional optional material of great variety in order that the book may not fail to do complete justice to pupil differences.