A Classroom Tour - In the third grade Middletown youngsters for the first time discover that old folks hop about this world muttering Language, not Words. Contractions, abbreviations, sentences, paragraphs, commas and a number of other tools are used by adults to beat Words into Language. Third graders are just about ready to handle some of the messy mallets. The months and their abbreviations made up the Language lesson at a recent afternoon session of Mrs. Dorothy Stein’s third grade class in Lincoln School. Sheets with drawings of nine figures dancing around three campfires were passed out to the children. The bouncing dancers stood for the nine months that own shortened forms, while the fires were marked May, June and July. These three, it seems, stay May, June and July through all sorts of crises...

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