A Companion is supplied for each reader in order to facilitate home study. The Companion supplies Questions on the stories. Lists of all new words introduced in each lesson with pronunciation signs and vernacular meanings also an Alphabetical Vocabulary of all words taught in the Reader which it accompanies, with meanings, and index numbers showing in what lesson each word made its first appearance. (The Companions can be supplied in any vernacular as required, also in a blank edition with spaces for writing in the vernacular meanings.)