[1] _How to Tell Stories to Children._

[2] In _How to Tell Stories to Children_, page 145.

[3] _How to Tell Stories to Children._

[4] _Nature Myths_, Florence Holbrook.

[5] _Favourite Greek Myths_, Lilian S. Hyde.

[6] _Legends of Greece and Rome_, G.H. Kupfer.

[7] _Folk Tales from Many Lands_, Lilian Gask.




STORY-TELLING IN TEACHING ENGLISH


I have to speak now of a phase of elementary education which lies very
close to my warmest interest, which, indeed, could easily become an
active hobby if other interests did not beneficently tug at my skirts
when I am minded to mount and ride too wildly. It is the hobby of many
of you who are teachers, also, and I know you want to hear it discussed.
I mean the growing effort to teach English and English literature to
children in the natural way: by speaking and hearing,--orally.

The structure of the language and the choice of words are dark matters
to most of our young people; this has long been acknowledged and