Keep him talking all you can.

Show him his mistakes with the utmost deliberation and kindliness of manner; and induce him to repeat his performances in your hearing after the correction has been suggested.

Cultivate the imitative tendency in him; it is the handmaid to the formation of facile habits of action.

In arranging the children's games, see that he gets the very active parts, even though he be backward and hesitating about assuming them.

Make him as far as possible a leader, in order to cultivate his sense of responsibility for the doing of things, and to lead to the expression of his understanding of arrangements, etc.