THE PURPOSE OF STORY-TELLING IN SCHOOL
- Its immediate Advantages to the Teacher
- Its ultimate Gifts to the Child
SELECTION OF STORIES TO TELL
- The Qualities Children like, and why
- Qualities necessary for Oral Delivery
- Examples: [The Three Bears], [The Three Little Pigs], [The Old Woman and her Pig]
- Suggestions as to the Type of Story especially useful in the several primary Grades
- Selected List of familiar Fairy Tales
ADAPTATION OF STORIES FOR TELLING
- How to make a long Story short
- How to fill out a short Story
- General Changes commonly desirable
- Examples: [The Nürnberg Stove], by Ouida; [The King of the Golden River], by Ruskin; [The Red Thread of Courage], [The Elf and the Dormouse]
- Analysis of Method