CHILDREN'S CLASSICS 

 IN DRAMATIC FORM 



BOOK ONE — For First and Second Grades. 40 cents. Postpaid. 

 BOOK TWO - For Second and Third Grades. 4° cents. Postpaid. 

 BOOK THREE - For Third and Fourth Grades. 44 cents. Postpaid; 

 BOOK FOUR — For Fifth and Sixth Grades. S^ cents. Postpaid, 

 POOK FIVE— For Seventh and Eighth Grades. 64 cents. Postpaid. 



DRAMATIZED SCENES FROM AMERICAN MSTORY-For 

 Sixth to Eighth Grades. 64 cents. Postpaid. 



By AUGUSTA STEVENSON 



Formerly a Teacher in the Indianapolis Public Schools 



These books accomplish three important functions : — firsll, 

 they arouse a greater interest in oral reading;; second, they 

 develop an expressive voice; and third, they gfive freedom 

 and grace in the bodily attitudes and movements involved 

 in reading and speaking. 



The use of these books will greatly improve the oral 

 reading in your schools. In these days, when so many books 

 are hastily read in school, there is a tendency to sacrifice ex^ 

 pression to the mechanics and interpretation of reading. 

 Those acquainted with school work know too well the resulting 

 Bionotonous, indistinct speech and the self-conscious, listlesE 

 attitude which characterize so much of the reading of pupils 

 In grades above the third. The dramatic appeal of the stories 

 in this book will cause the child to lose himself in the ehar',^ 

 acter he is impersonating, and to read with a naturalness and ' 

 expressiveness unknown to him before; and this improvement 

 will be evident in all his oral reading and even in his speech. 



HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY 

 BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO 



