Humor is decidedly fourth grade level. Time fourth or fifth. Emotion fifth, and Ethics sixth or seventh because of complex ideas as well as syntax. Ethics could be used with advanced students in the lower grades or remedial readers in the upper grades. The author assumes that reading skills and valuable life information can be taught concurrently.
Reading can be pleasurable as well as highly instructive.
Funny Things is simply a book of short, humorous, sometimes nonsensical verse, illustrating the ambiguities of the two concepts. Time contains 48 pages of general introduction on the nature of the concept, followed by an excerpt from Alice In Wonderland , and concluding with jokes about time. Instructional Method One of the virtues of this series is that its methodology is creative and can lead to the young student's emotional as well as intellectual involvement. The contents could easily be the basis for class reading and discussion, but the ultimate value would be in individual or group work. Small groups of students would enjoy and benefit from a problem-solving exercise, especially one based on Time or Emotion.