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 material on which conversation and written exercises are based has been selected with reference to its living interest to children and its vital relation to their experiences. The lessons are arranged so that oral discussion precedes and prepares for written expression. [For book one, see ED623128. For book three, see ED623131.]