Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Carter Intermediate Readers, Vol. 1
IF we exclude the singing book and the reader, the texts of the fifth grade furnish pupils with information which will help them to be self-supporting and useful in the home and in the community. Since the purpose of the schools is to prepare the pupil for effective living, the reading book must further this end.
Lessons of the information type are of little value in a reader, either when such lessons are considered as content, or when they are used for teaching the mechanics of reading, beyond its merest rudiments. When used as content, information lessons are too brief and disconnected to be of permanent value; and being didactic in character, such subject matter neither arouses the pupil's imagination nor stimulates his inter est sufficiently to produce the best results.
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