1922 copyrighted text. The author is credited as Formerly Supervisor of English in Charleston, West Virginia and Also Teacher of English in the Lincoln School of Teachers College. Preface states text regards language as a living, growing thing, and follows Dr. Charles Sears Baldwin that the teaching of composition should be promotive and not merely corrective. Aims to stimulate desire to speak and write, and uses children's actual realities and projects and group work. Uses terminology recommended by the Joint Committee on Grammatical Nomenclature (appointed by the NEA), the Modern Language Association of America, and the American Philological Association. Part one includes chapters on organizing a club, the study of pictures, how to become more rapid readers, reading for meaning, use of the dictionary, civic study for the club, outlining a subject for speaking or writing, and as well as chapters on grammar. Part two includes chapters on the paragraph, contributions to the school paper, the sentence, subject and predicate, making ourselves clear, making a booklet, letters and social notes, invitations, telling a story, expression of feeling, words without organic connection with the sentence, idioms, summary of punctuation, the use of capitals, business letters and forms, and more chapters on grammar. Includes examples from well known authors. The Schultz Archive copy includes the preface, TOC, and a selection of pages from throughout the text that relate to composition.