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November 14, 1925 WINNETKA TALK speckled eggs. If we should find a| nest with four blue eggs in it, we could be pretty sure that it was the nestof a. ......4.... 0% rather than of a Ra aE or a dove. 17. Boys and girls know my name. And mothers and fathers, too. Big | folks love me. You do, too. The first | letters in the first four sentences of this paragraph spell my name; so write | oA TL RI es Tet NR SE 29. "Naive" and "unsophisticated" are | frequently confused. The former sug- | gests a type of behavior which is art- | less, spontaneous, and free from the restraints of custom. The latter im- plies fully as great lack of knowledge | of social usage, and, in addition, con- | duct which is primitive and perchance | inelegant. Thus, the . youth was the first to enter the car, | ARATE ns agin emmys little sister warmly kissed him in the presence of the king. We may also say that a COUNTY = DOV; 18%stey vinta vis + ..with respect to city life and customs. As can be seen from the paragraphs each one is harder than the preceding one. A child who got from two to eight paragraphs correct was consid- ered to have second grade reading abil- ity. A child who had from nine to 17 paragraphs correct has a reading abil- ity corresponding to third grade. The fourth grade standard is 18 to 26 par- agraphs correct, and so on. These standards were determined by the authors of the test by giving it to thousands of children. The average score made by fourth grade children for exampl€ is considered the standard for fourth grade. Similarly the av- erage score made by thousands of sixth grade children is considered the stand- ard for sixth grade. Throughout our grading of the list these standards have been used. Results: There are many interesting results from the 100,000 ballots which were returned to us. It has not been possible in the short time we have had to begin to exhaust the study of these ballots. Fifty thousand of them were filled out on 800 books, each of which had enough ballots to grade. The other 50,000 ballots were filled out on 8,500 different books. Not any one of these 8,500 different books was read by 25 or more children, the minimum number necessary to make a reliable grading possible. Much more study can be made of the sort of books which were balloted upon by this large number of children, and yet which did not have enough slips on any one book to grade. Out of the 50,000 ballots on the 800 graded books, 22,000 were filled out by boys and 31,000 by girls. This may have been because girls do more read- ing than boys or it may have been be- cause girls were more careful about filling out ballots than the boys. Besides having more ballots from girls than from boys we found that there seemed to be a tendency for girls to have a higher degree of reading ability. For example, in. many cases 11 year old boys had a reading ability corresponding to sixth grade, while 11 vear old girls had a reading ability corresponding to seventh. This is not always the case but it is more often true than is the reverse situation. Because in the differences in the ages and reading ability of the boys and girls who read and like certain books, all data has been handled se- parately for boys and girls. Study Reading Ability For each book read by 25 or more children, a study was made of the average reading ability of the children who enjoyed it. For example, the av- erage reading ability of the children who enjoyed "Tom Sawyer" corres- ponds to the standard for seventh grade, so this book has been placed on a seventh grade list. The average reading ability of the children who en- joyed "The Dutch Twins" corresponds to the fourth grade standard, so "The | Dutch Twins" has been placed on a fourth grade list. The graded list of books (being pub- lished as "The Winnetka Graded Book List") resulting from the ballots filled out by these 36,750 children consists largely of books which these children apparently selected freely. Some books may have been recommended by teach- ers and others included in certain courses of study but these seem to be a small minority. Your Dealer Will Co-operate et Willingly 7 SE ini He Will sn your bins for the winter with the Students Burn "Dummy" to Close Football Year New Trier High school students will burn the football "dummy" after the final practice of the year this after- noon. There will be a general cele- bration by the students and Superin- tendent Frederick E. Clerk will give a brief address. The final game of the season will be played Saturday, when the warriors of the Gray and Green meet Evanston high school, ancient rivals of the local eleven. best and most economical fuel you can buy. 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Nursery is just west of Lin- coln avenue on Peterson road, Chicago. Peterson road is north line of Rosehill Cemetery. WE DO PLANTING For those who do not care to do their own planting, we will deliver and plant. We have a fine stock of large trees for winter planting. Peterson Nursery 30 N.LaSalleSt.,Chicago Telephone Main 3613