Description

Content: Its educational and psychological basis
Form: Its patterns in words, sentences and stories

STORIES:
Two-Year-Olds: Types to be adjusted to individual children. Content, personal activities, told in motor and sense terms. Form reduced to a succession of few simple patterns.
MARNI TAKES A RIDE
MARNI GETS DRESSED IN THE MORNING
Three-Year-Olds: Content based on enumeration of familiar sense and motor associations and simple familiar chronological sequences. Some attempt to give opportunity for own contribution or for "motor enjoyment."
THE ROOM WITH THE WINDOW LOOKING OUT ON THE GARDEN
THE MANY HORSE STABLE
MY KITTY
THE ROOSTER AND THE HENS
THE LITTLE HEN AND THE ROOSTER
Jingles:
MY HORSE, OLD DAN
HORSIE GOES JOG-A-JOG
AUTO, AUTO
Four- and Five-Year-Olds: Content, simple relationships between familiar moving objects, stressing particularly the idea of use. Emphasis on sound. Attempt to make verse patterns carry the significant points in the narrative.
HOW SPOT FOUND A HOME
THE DINNER HORSES
THE GROCERY MAN
THE JOURNEY
PEDRO'S FEET
HOW THE ENGINE LEARNED THE KNOWING SONG
THE FOG BOAT STORY
HAMMER, SAW, AND PLANE
THE ELEPHANT
HOW THE ANIMALS MOVE
THE SEA-GULL
THE FARMER TRIES TO SLEEP
WONDERFUL-COW-THAT-NEVER-WAS
THINGS THAT LOVED THE LAKE
HOW THE SINGING WATER GOT TO THE TUB
THE CHILDREN'S NEW DRESSES
OLD DAN GETS THE COAL
Six- and Seven-Year-Olds: Content, relationships further removed from the personal and immediate and extended to include social significance of simple familiar facts. Longer-span pattern which has become organic with beginning, middle and end.
THE SUBWAY CAR
BORIS TAKES A WALK AND FINDS MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF TRAINS
BORIS WALKS EVERY WAY IN NEW YORK
SPEED
FIVE LITTLE BABIES
ONCE THE BARN WAS FULL OF HAY
THE WIND
THE LEAF STORY
A LOCOMOTIVE
MOON, MOON
AUTOMOBILE SONG
SILLY WILL
EBEN'S COWS
THE SKY SCRAPER