Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE STORY IN PRIMARY INSTRUCTION

Sixteen Stories and How to Use Them

by

SAMUEL B. ALLISON. PH. D.

Principal of the Walsh School, Chicago

and

H. AVIS PERDUE

Primary Instructor, Chicago Normal Practice School

A. Flanagan Company Chicago

Copyright 1902 By A. Flanagan Company

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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INTRODUCTORY DISCUSSION 5

THE STORY IN PRIMARY INSTRUCTION 5

1. The Mastery of a Vocabulary not the Material of Instruction.
2. A Wider Circle and Purpose, Growing out of the Child’s Life
and Needs.
3. Language Teaching.

THE SELECTION OF THE SUBJECT MATTER 11

1. Phase of Mind Activity in Early Civilisation.
2. A Third Element of the Race Products.
3. The Legendary and the Mythological the Child’s Natural Food.
4. How Are We to Discriminate as to the Material to be
Selected?
5. Narratives Selected and the Basis of Selection.
6. The Four Story Groups.

THE PROBLEM OF CORRELATION 20

SUGGESTIONS 23

1. The Treatment.
2. Reproduction.
3. The Preparation.
4. Narration.
5. The Deepening.
6. The Nature Material.
7. Ethical Material.
8. Reading.
9. Drawing. Etc.
10. Dramatisation.
11. Construction.

SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIVE STORIES 35

THE SEVEN LITTLE GOATS 35

1. The Mother Goat.
2. The Wolf.
3. The Wolf in the House.
4. The Mother Goat’s Return.
5. Detail of Form Work (Diagram).

THE STARDOLLARS 44

1. At Home.
2. In the Fields.
3. In the Forest.

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD 48

1. At Home.
2. In the Woods.
3. At Grandmother’s House.

THE SWEET RICE PORRIDGE 54

1. The Little Girl and her Mother.
2. The Wonderful Rat.
3. The Mother Well Again.
4. The Flood of Rice.
5. The Valley Filled Up.

MOTHER FROST 63

1. The Lost Spindle.
2. The Maid in the Well.
3. The Return Home.
4. The Idle Maid.

SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED 70

1. The Home.
2. How Snow-White and Rose-Red Played.
3. The Bear.
4. A Dwarf In Trouble.
5. The Dwarf Fishing.
6. The Dwarf and an Eagle.
7. The Bear Again.

THE COCK AND THE HEN 83

1. On the Mountain.
2. The Travelers.
3. At the Inn.
4. The Innkeeper.

DEATH OF THE COCK 89

1. The Cock’s Death.
2. The Funeral.
3. Crossing the River.

BIRDIE AND LENA 93

1. How the Hunter Found Birdie.
2. The Cook.
3. How Birdie was Saved.
4. The Search.
5. The Servants Go Again to the Forest.
6. The Cook Punished.

THE WOLF AND THE FOX 102

1. At the Farm Yard.
2. At the Farm House.
3. In the Cellar.

THE STREET MUSICIANS 107

1. How the Musicians Came Together.
2. In the Forest.
3. The Robbers Return.
4. Detail of Form Work (Diagram).

THE STRAW, THE COAL AND THE BEAN 116

1. The Meeting.
2. The Journey.

CINDERELLA 120

1. How Cinderella Got Her Name.
2. The Fair.
3. The Ball.
4. How Cinderella Went to the Ball.

THE WONDERFUL TRAVELER 130

1. The Traveler.
2. The Kind Man Grants Wishes.
3. The Proud Man Overtakes the Traveler.
4. The Proud Man’s Wishes.

HANS AND THE FOUR BIG GIANTS 141

1. The House in the Country.
2. Leaving Home.
3. Hans in the City.
4. The King’s Palace.
5. Hans Starts on his Journey.
6. Hans Meets Another Giant.
7. Hans Meets a Third Giant.
8. Hans Meets a Fourth Giant.
9. How Hans Got the Necklace.

THE FIR TREE 155

1. In the Forest.
2. The Wood-Cutters.
3. Other Trees Go from the Forest.
4. The Fir Tree Has its Wish.