8. The assignment should be unmistakably clear and definite, so as to insure a good seat study.
9. The seat study should be chiefly on parts already discussed in class.
10. During the recitation proper, strong class attention by all the members of the class is a first necessity. Much knowledge, alertness, and skill are necessary to secure this. One must keep all the members of the class in the eye constantly, and distribute the questions and work among them promptly and judiciously, so as to secure concentrated effort.
11. The teacher can often judge a recitation better without looking at the book while the class is reading.
12. Skill in questioning is very useful in reading lessons.
(a) Questions to arouse the thought should appeal to the experience of children.
(b) Questions to bring out the meaning of words or passages, or to expose errors or to develop thought, should be clear and specific, not long and ambiguous.
13. Let the teacher be satisfied with reasonable answers, and not insist on the precise verbal form present to his own mind.
14. The teacher needs to awaken strongly the imagination in picturing scenes, in interpreting poetic images and figures, and in impersonating characters. The picture-forming power is stimulated by apt questions, by suggestion of the teacher, by interpretation, by appeal to experience, by dramatic action.