This textbook aims to lead the child to love his mother tongue. The lessons give opportunity for children to share their stories, to play games, to dramatize, and to have interesting conversations on things close to child life. This series of readers is the result of schoolroom practice. Every lesson has been developed in actual teaching both by the author and by teachers under his supervision. The lessons come as the result of experiment under conditions varying from the ungraded rural school to the most advanced graded schools. [For the accompanying Teachers' Manual, see ED623421.]