. Bulletin of the State Normal School, Fredericksburg, Virginia, June, 1915. ing place in it. In the second term the student is made familiar with forms ofwriting and literature especially necessary to the teacher. Letter-writing, literary appreciation, news-writing, and current literatureare found to be helpful subjects for study and discussion. Texts: Emerson and Bender, Book II; Woolley, Handbook ofEnglish Composition. Three periods per week for the session. Reading and Expression 51: This is not a course in elocution, butone intended to assist those who are planning to teach English in the

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. Bulletin of the State Normal School, Fredericksburg, Virginia, June, 1915. ing place in it. In the second term the student is made familiar with forms ofwriting and literature especially necessary to the teacher. Letter-writing, literary appreciation, news-writing, and current literatureare found to be helpful subjects for study and discussion. Texts: Emerson and Bender, Book II; Woolley, Handbook ofEnglish Composition. Three periods per week for the session. Reading and Expression 51: This is not a course in elocution, butone intended to assist those who are planning to teach English in thehigh school, to correct bad habits in reading, and to acquire good ones.Although a good voice is a natural gift, much may be done by faithfuleffort toward the development of a well-pitched and carefully modu-lated speaking voice. Such training saves the teachers strengthand the pupils nerves; but beyond these gains is the pleasure to bothfrom the successful interpretative reading of the works of greatauthors. Texts: To be selected. Two periods per week for the first term.. o < a w o- Fredericksburg, Virginia 61 Reading and Methods 51: In this course reading is viewed from abroader standpoint than in Primary Methods. The importance andkinds of reading as well as methods in teaching reading in inter-mediate and grammar grades are considered. There is discussion ofmeans of securing the best results in oral, silent, and parallel reading.This study of the teachers preparation of reading lessons precedesthe students making and presenting to the class their own plans forteaching lessons in reading, story-telling, dramatization, and litera-ture. Texts: Briggs and Coffman, Eeading in Public Snhools; Smith, Teaching Poetry in the Grades. Three periods per week for the first term. English 61: Methods of teaching poetry, the novel, the play, theessay, the short story, and the oration are discussed. The dramatiza-tion of literature for the grammar grades receives attention. Methodsof teac