Public school methods . or the Third Grade. Teachers often dropdramatization at the end of the first or second year, andthus stifle the dramatic instinct in the children. This featureof reading is as valuable in the third grade as in those fact, there is no grade in which dramatization may notat times be used to good effect. Some selections in thethird readers lend themselves readily to this line of work,but others, particularly selections abounding in description,do not. The children like best those stories found in thereader and taken from other sources, which are full of action,and
Public school methods . or the Third Grade. Teachers often dropdramatization at the end of the first or second year, andthus stifle the dramatic instinct in the children. This featureof reading is as valuable in the third grade as in those fact, there is no grade in which dramatization may notat times be used to good effect. Some selections in thethird readers lend themselves readily to this line of work,but others, particularly selections abounding in description,do not. The children like best those stories found in thereader and taken from other sources, which are full of action,and which for this reason can be readily dramatized. Dramatization in this grade affords one of the best meansof preventing undue self-consciousness mentioned in Sec-tion 3, provided securing expression is the chief aim. Thefollowing suggestions will aid in avoiding difficulties andin securing desired results; (i) Avoid all show. Let the class read as usual untilthe portion of the lesson containing the dialogue is reached,. Dramatization, Story Telling, Games, Songs 167 then assign the parts and allow the reading to pupil may read the part assigned him whenever it occurs. (2) Let the reading be interpretative, not imitative. Thepupils should give more attention to expressing the thoughtin the selection than to the actions and feelings of the char-acter which they represent. Such imitation leads to self-consciousness, and often tends to turn what is designed tobe a means for securing good expression into a mere show. (3) Avoid memorizing, except when the selection isbrief. Let the exercise be simply one means of securinggood expression, and on a par with other exercises usedwith different selections for a like purpose. (4) Put yourself in sympathy with the selection and theplan of presenting it. Unless you can do this, probably youwould better not attempt dramatization with this grade. STORY TELLING 7. Value. G. Stanley Hall is quoted as saying that thefirst essential
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