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ERIC ED623132: Elementary English in Action. Grade 3

The organization of this book is based upon the principle -- generally accepted in schools today -- that every situation in the school requiring or stimulating social intercommunication or individual self-expression affords significant opportunity for developing language ability. These situations, which are vital and meaningful to the pupils, are found in the current life of the school, and particularly in the social studies and the natural science classes. In the first part of the book will be found typical units embodying these vital situations -- units taken from the fields of social science, natural science, and the general school life, and rich in opportunities for language training. While the pupil is dealing with these natural and provocative units assembled in Part I, the pupil discovers that they need certain information about the use of language and that he needs to acquire or to perfect certain skills in order to remedy faults in their verbal expression. The informational and drill material in this book is assembled mainly in Part II, where it becomes a 'Pupil's Handbook' instantly available for reference, yet out of the way when not wanted. This separation of the two as

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