1. The literature chosen must be suitable in its themes, its action, its feeling, its simplicity.
2. Literary histories and biographies: their limited value in elementary work.
3. Scientific and historical material in literature. Literary use of such material not to be confounded with science and history.
4. Pictures and other illustrative material: Sometimes give intuitive basis for desired concepts; sometimes interfere with the imagination.
3. Method.
1. Reading aloud: its value. Means of securing good results; interest, sense of reality, consciousness of an audience.
2. Analytic study, of content, form, and general literary effects.
a. Must be adapted to the pupil’s interest and his stage of development.
b. Must yield results of value appreciable by the pupil.
c. Effects of too much or too little such study.