Bolenius Emma M. The Boys’ and Girls’ Readers Teachers’ Manual for Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Grades

Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. — 238 p.The Boys’ and Girls’ Readers for the intermediate grades are planned to take the boys and girls at the end of the third grade of primary reading and lift them to a new level of attainment in the technique of reading and to a broader field of content in the selections. The organization of the Contents is planned to put children in living touch with the wide reading dominating intermediate grade work:
The World about us: Home and Neighborhood The Great Outdoors The Workaday World
Our Country Past and Present
Stories, Folk-Tales, Myths, Adventure, and Travel
From Foreign Lands Part V. A Play to Act
Acquaintance with Literary Men and WomenTo get the greatest use from the Readers in class and from this Manual you should observe carefully the following:
The transition from the grade below
The plan for each year
The plan for each group
A wise allotment of time for the reading periods