4. Pointing the moral.
b. The children’s part in the lesson.
1. Telling the story.
2. Writing the story.
3. Solving problems suggested by the story.
c. Stories of the preparatory period may be so managed as to form a real basis for later history—training in putting things together, in seeing simple relations, in developing a sense of continuity.
2. The Intermediate Stage—the Fifth and Sixth Years.
a. Some oral presentation along the lines indicated for the preparatory period.
b. The general tendency toward textbook work.
1. Regular lessons assigned and recited.