A 2-year continuation of one of the 27 U. S. Office of Education First Grade Reading Studies is reported. Students in the linguistics approach were initially taught to read using the experimental edition of "A Basic Reading Series Developed upon Linguistic Principles" by Charles C. Fries and others. Students in the basal reader approach…

This paper presents some ways of helping young children to extend their imaginative powers through an interpretative recreation of literary selections and some techniques for reading various literary genres imaginatively. Various teachers' guides and manuals that suggest ways to read literature in a critical and imaginative manner are discussed.…