INSTRUCTION IN LANGUAGE ARTS 29

 Elson-Gray Basic Reader, Book Four
 Elson-Gray Basic Reader, Book Five
 Elson-Gray Basic Reader, Book Six

 In addition to this systematic series, most schools still have
available some copies of basic and supplementary readers formerly
in adoption.

 Transition and remedial reading materials include:
 The Elephant's Friend, Grade Four
 In a Green Valley, Grade Five
 The Masquerade and Other Stories, Grade Six
 Teacher's Manuals
 These textbooks are intended for remedial or transitional work
with small groups and should be requisitioned in limited quantities
only. The teacher's manuals containing specific directions, timed
tests, and practice exercises are essential to the use of -the books.
If the books are used without the manual in the expectation that
the texts are simple reading, the results will be disappointing.

 Developing Reading Skills in the Content Subjects
 It is neither possible nor desirable to attempt to have all the
experience in developing reading abilities take place only in the
period devoted to direct instruction in reading skills. The inter-
mediate child spends a great proportion of his day in reading, and
the content fields are the most expedient place for acquiring many
of the necessary abilities. Thus, map reading can be taught in
connection with geography.
 When an adult stops to consider candidly the reading task that
confronts a child -in the content fields in the intermediate grades, he
is usually amazed that the child succeeds at all. It must be kept
in mind that when a person reads for information, he must know
either the words in which the information is presented or the general
idea toward which he is working. If the words and the idea are
both new, he necessarily fails to get the thought. This condition is
just as true of the tenth grade pupil studying biology, the college
student studying philosophy, and the adult reading an article on