Here and Now Story Book - Two- to seven-year-olds

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