SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS 



GROUP DISCUSSION 



Informational value of silent reading. In preparing 

 this account of life in the rainy tropics we have been 

 animated by a firm belief in the informational value 

 of silent reading and the necessity for acquiring, while 

 still in school, the habit of reading informational 

 matter. We remember the information and pleasure 

 received from such reading in our own grade-school 

 days and regret that we were never allowed time to 

 talk over what we had read and so fix impressions or 

 correct wrong ideas. We suggest supervised group 

 discussion where the teacher may be sure that the 

 children will be encouraged to talk over the material 

 informally together. 



Exploration clubs. Such encouragement might well 

 result from dividing the class into exploration clubs 

 each one of which is asked to discuss informally and 

 decide which of the experiences recorded in Jungle 

 Island they would most like or dislike to meet with; 

 which of the animals they would most desire to see; 

 which they would fear most ; which they think would 

 prove most useful to a person alone on a jungle 

 island. Each club should then -^ report through a 

 chosen leader to the entire group. Once he is away 

 from the Canal Zone towns, a man's supplies are 

 limited. What things do the children think necessary 

 for a week's stay on Jungle Island? 



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