Content: Its educational and psychological basisForm: 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 RIDEMARNI GETS DRESSED IN THE MORNINGThree-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 GARDENTHE MANY HORSE STABLEMY KITTYTHE ROOSTER AND THE HENSTHE LITTLE HEN AND THE ROOSTERJingles:MY HORSE, OLD DANHORSIE GOES JOG-A-JOGAUTO, AUTOFour- 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 HOMETHE DINNER HORSESTHE GROCERY MANTHE JOURNEYPEDRO''S FEETHOW THE ENGINE LEARNED THE KNOWING SONGTHE FOG BOAT STORYHAMMER, SAW, AND PLANETHE ELEPHANTHOW THE ANIMALS MOVETHE SEA-GULLTHE FARMER TRIES TO SLEEPWONDERFUL-COW-THAT-NEVER-WASTHINGS THAT LOVED THE LAKEHOW THE SINGING WATER GOT TO THE TUBTHE CHILDREN''S NEW DRESSESOLD DAN GETS THE COALSix- 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 CARBORIS TAKES A WALK AND FINDS MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF TRAINSBORIS WALKS EVERY WAY IN NEW YORKSPEEDFIVE LITTLE BABIESONCE THE BARN WAS FULL OF HAYTHE WINDTHE LEAF STORYA LOCOMOTIVEMOON, MOONAUTOMOBILE SONGSILLY WILLEBEN''S COWSTHE SKY SCRAPER
