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Describes inexpensive booklets, leaflets, posters and supplementary health education materials dealing with topics that should interest literacy classes.

Folkway Records and Service Corporation, 117 West 46th St., New York 36, N.Y. Folkways Spoken Word Recordings. Catalog. 31 p.

A handy checklist of Folkways authentic folk music on long-playing records and the books associated with them.

Free and Inexpensive Learning Materials. 9th ed. Nashville, Tenn. George Peabody College for Teachers, 1959. 256 p.

With few exceptions no item listed costs more than 50 cents.

Jam Handy Organization, 2821 East Grand Boulevard, Detroit 11, Mich.

Issues catalog of instructional materials.

Libraphone, Inc., 10 East 44th St., New York 17, N.Y.

Sixteen albums available in the following categories: Travel-adventure, humor, inspiration, detective-mystery, etc. Prices available upon request.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Traveling Exhibition Service. Traveling Exhibitions-1960– 1961: Catalog. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. 40 p. Issued annually.

Lists a variety of traveling exhibitions available to any non profit organization in the fields of painting and sculpture, drawings and prints, oriental art, architecture, design and crafts, folk art and indigenous art, photography, and children's art.

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE, OFFICE OF EDUCATION. Education Directory. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959. Issued annually in the following parts:

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Part 2-Classroom Materials Often Used in Adult Elementary Classes and By Teachers of English As a Second Language

ABC American English Charts and Teacher's Manual. A manual and new visual aid for teaching English as a second language. By Nancy McNulty. New York: American Book Company, 1960. Manual (20 p.). For teen charts specially packaged in a binder that converts into an easel.

Adult Education Series Filmstrips. Distributed by Stanley Bowmar Co., Inc., Valhalla, New York.

The following filmstrips are available for teachers of literacy and adult elementary classes: (1) Know Your School; (2) Know Your Public Library; (3) Know Your Community; and (4) Enjoy Your Community.

BALTIMORE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Department of Education, Division of Adult Education. Our

Annapolis. Professional Study Activities No. 302. By Anthony J. Unitas. Baltimore, Md.: The Department, September 1954. 53 p. Processed.

Our Baltimore. September 1953, 64 p. Processed.

Our Washington. 1952.

40 p. Processed.

Part I-Public Schools. Experimental Work Book in Arithmetic: Division of Whole Numbers for Instruction of Adults. 1953. 107 p. Processed.

BOGGS, RALPH S. In collaboration with Robert J. Dixson. English Step by Step With Pictures. New York: Noble and Noble, Publishers, Inc. for Latin American Institute Press, Inc., 1956. 207 p. Illustrated texts.

Carter-Sono-Speller. Workbook and Spelling Tablet. Book I. Prepared by Katherine Pollard Carter. Bay City, Tex.: The Author. Not dated. 180 p.

CASS, ANGELICA W. Everyday English and Basic Word List for Adults. New York: Noble & Noble, Publishers, Inc., 1960. 58 p.

Arranged in units or lessons suitable for adult elementary classes. Contains a basic list of essential English words to help the adult student to read, write, spell and converse with confidence and proficiency.

How to Be a Wise Consumer. Facts for Purchasers. New York: Oxford Book Co., Inc. 1959. 174 p.

How We Live. Adult Education Series Book I for Beginning Students. New York: Noble and Noble Publishers, Inc., 1949. 148 p.

Your Family and Your Job. Adult Education Series Book 2. New York: Noble and Noble Publishers, Inc., 1948. 71 p.

CASS, ANGELICA W.; HAYES, MARY; and THOMAS, LYDIA E. First Patrol and Other Stories. Simplified fourth-grade level Digest stories for adults. Adult Education Reader (Level A.). Pleasantville, N.Y.: Reader's Digest, 1954.

and ROSENFELD, JEANNETTE. Write Your Own Letters. Useful for adult students interested in everyday letter writing or business communications. New York; Noble and Noble, 1950. 64 p.

CLENDENING, FRANCES, and LOWER, M. C. Mastering English. An elementary Exercise Book for Foreigners. New York: The Macmillan Co., New York. 1941.

CLEVELAND BOARD OF EDUCATION, Division of Adult Education. Lessons in English for Adults. English 1B. Adult Education Bulletin, Series 1, Number 7. Cleveland, Ohio: The Board of Education, not dated. 16 p. Processed.

Material for Use in Intermediate Classes. By Bessie R. Dixon, 1936-1937. Revised and Combined by Gladys Hughes and Rose Cherney, September 1948. 43 p. Processed.

Material for Use in Intermediate Classes: Lessons on Driving an Automobile. By Carolina H. Rogers. Cleveland, Ohio: The Board of Education, September 1953. 6 p. Processed.

DIXSON, ROBERT J. In collabora

tion with Maria D. Andujar. Complete Course in English. Book I. New York: Noble and Noble, Publishers, Inc., 1955. 286 p.

Complete Course in English. Book 2. Emphasis on Conversation. New York: Noble and Noble Publishers, Inc., 1955. 318 p.

Direct English Conversation for Foreign Students. Revised ed. Book I, and Book II. New York: Noble and Noble, Publishers, Inc. Distributed for Latin American Institute Press, Inc., 1949. 130 p.

Educational Services. Beginner's Book for English as a Second Language. Educational Services, 1730 Eye St., NW, Washington 6, 1952.

English Language Research, Inc. Learning the English Language. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1949.

GIBSON, C. M., and RICHARDS, I. A. First Steps in Reading English. New York: Pocket Books, Inc., 1957. 164 p.

GRAY, WIL LOU, and KOHN, ERIN. Opening the Door to Reading. Practical adult vocabulary. Fourth ed. Columbia, S. C.: The State Co., 1944. 44 p.

GUYTON, MARY L., and KIELTY, MARGARET E. From Words to Stories. Simple English for men. and women. New York: Noble and Noble, Publishers, Inc., 1951. 83 p.

Home and Family Life Series. Published by Educator's Washington Dispatch, New London, Connecticut. Distributed by Arthur C. Croft Publications, New York City. Produced by the Project for Literacy Education under the sponsorship of Federal Security Agency, Office of Education, with the financial assistance of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The complete series published in 1949 is listed as follows:

1. A Day With the Brown Family. Basic Reader 1. 36 p.

2. Making a Good Living. Reader 2. 32 p.

3. The Browns at School. Reader 3. 32 p.

4. The Browns and Their Neighbors. Reader 4. 16 p.

5. Reading Placement. 4 p.

6. Learning to Read Better Workbook. 36 p.

7. The Arithmetic Workbook. 66 p. 8. The Language Workbook. 36 p. 9. Reading Placement Manual: Workbook Guide, Lesson Plans for Readers. 32 p.

10. Let's Help the Ten Million: Teacher's Manual. 72 p.

HUEBENER, THEODORE, and FINOCCHIARO, MARY. English for Spanish-Americans. New York: Henry Holt, New York, 1950.

INTERNATIONAL LADIES GARMENT WORKERS UNION, Educational Department. Elementary English Reader, by Simon Beagle. Lessons in English for beginners. New York: ILGWU, 1953. Processed.

An elementary reader prepared at the request of the Educational Department of the Union to meet the need "for basic graded elementary curric

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Basic English. General discussion of basic English; lists of stories. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1944. 234 p.

KING, HAROLD V. Irregular Verbs. Lessons and oral drills in the Important English Verb Forms. Washington: Washington Publications, 3915 Military Road, NW, Washington 15, 1955.

KOTTMEYER, WILLIAM, and others. Everyreader Library. Adapted classics at fourth-grade level. St. Louis, Mo., Webster Publishing Co., 1947.

LADO, ROBERT, ROBERT, and and FRIES, CHARLES C. English Pattern Practices Establishing the Pattern as Habit. An Intensive Course in English. Revised ed. Ann Arbor, Mich.: The University of Michigan Press. Revised 1958. 778 p.

LAUBACH, FRANK C. Streamlined English Lessons: The New Easier Way to Learn To Read. Laubach method. New York: Committee on World Literacy and Christian Literature, Foreign Missions Conference of North America, 156 Fifth Ave. 1945. 108 p.

Teacher's Manual for Streamlined English. Suggestions and guidelines for the teacher of adult elementary classes in Eng

lish. N. Y.: The Macmillan Co., 1950. 103 p.

LING, S., MCCLAIN, C., and MITCHELL, M. E. Family Life Reader. A Beginning Reader for Adults. Atlanta, Ga.: Allen Jones and Co., 1938.

MCNAMARA, MAXINE E., and MEHRENS, INEZ K. Tilly The Tiger and How She Came to Washington. Suitable for adults. with limited reading ability. Washington: National Aviation Education Council, 1955. 31 p.

MACAVOY, CLARISSA H. English in Pictures: First Steps in Reading English. Albany, N. Y.: Fort Orange Press, 1937. 50 p.

The First Drill Book in Reading English for Men and Women. Albany, N. Y.: Fort Orange Press, 1933. 166 p.

MASON, J. D., and O'BRIEN, G. E. A Practical Reader for Adults. Simple text with manual. Boston: D. C. Heath and Co., 3 vols. Book 1, Primary, 1931. Book 2, Intermediate, 1945. Book 3, Advanced, 1946.

Massachusetts Department of Education. From Words to Stories. Text to develop reading ability of adult illiterates. Prepared by Mary L. Guyton and Margaret E. Kielty. Boston: The Department, 1945. 32 p.

MITCHELL, ELIZABETH G. Beginning American English. A conversational approach for the student of English. Englewood

Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1957. 247 p.

EVA CORNELIA. Workbook in Learning to Read Better. Washington: Educator's Washington Dispatch, 1950.

MORRIS, ELIZABETH C. Adult Adventures in Reading. Practice Exercises for Adult Elementary Students. New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., Inc., 1939. Reprinted 1950. 264 p.

NATIONAL AVIATION EDUCATION COUNCIL, WASHINGTON: The Council, Planning and Advisory Board.

(1) Jets. A pictorial booklet. September 1953. 31 p.

(2) Look to the Sky. A picture book of aviation. August 1953. 32 p.

North Carolina. Department of Public Instruction. Highway Safety Series. Illustrated lessons for adult illiterates. Publication Nos. 215, 216, and 223. Raleigh, N.C.: State Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1939-40. Three volumes: Book 1, Highway Signs; Book 2, The Driver Studies His Test; and Book 3, The Driver Takes His Test.

Home Series. Illustrated vocabulary lessons. Publication Nos. 213, 214, and 222. Raleigh, N.C.: State Superintendent of Public Instruction, 193940. Three vols.: Book 1, Our Home; Book 2, Our Home, Our Family, Our Friends; Book 3, Our Home Day by Day.

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