The importance of preparing indigenous stories for reading in the intermediate grades

Abstract

Nobody quarrels with the need to teach literature in schools, but there has been much dis­cussion about what to teach, and when, and where. Another “where” question is: Where may we obtain materials? Another question is: How can we be sure that our reading matter makes good reading? The author shows what one interested classroom teacher can do about these problems. This portion of a much longer work shows how to adapt stories for school use. The purpose of this study is twofold: to help conserve local legends and folk tales and to utilize them as source materials in reading for the intermediate grades in the Philippines.