Graded Literature Readers: Fourth Book

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Various. Graded Literature Readers: Fourth Book

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean

September

Robert Louis Stevenson

Travel

Travelers' Wonders

Ants

The Four Sunbeams

Sifting Boys

The Fountain

Lewis Carroll

What Alice Said to the Kitten

I

II

The Kitten and the Falling Leaves

The Snow-Image

I

II

III

IV

V

Little by Little

The House I Live In

I

II

III

Jefferson's Ten Rules

The Pet Lamb

The Story of Florinda

I

II

III

IV

The Eagle

Psalm XXIII

Tilly's Christmas

I

II

Under the Greenwood Tree

Our First Naval Hero

Hiawatha's Sailing

Shun Delay

I

II

The Walrus and the Carpenter

The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peribanou

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

The Planting of the Apple Tree

Nests

Sir Isaac Newton

I

II

III

Lucy

To a Skylark

Tom Goes down to the Sea

I

II

III

IV

Psalm XXIV

A Good Samaritan

The Spartan Three Hundred

I

II

The Fairy Life

Charles Dickens

Little Charley

I

II

III

Tray

The Golden Fleece

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

The Star-Spangled Banner

My Native Land

Hunting the Grizzly1

I

II

Words in Fourth Reader

Phonic Chart

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In the Fourth and Fifth Readers the selections are longer, the language more advanced, and the literature of a more mature and less imaginative character than in the earlier books.

The teacher should now place increased emphasis on the literary side of the reading, pointing out beauties of language and thought, and endeavoring to create an interest in the books from which the selections are taken. Pupils will be glad to know something about the lives of the authors whose works they are reading, and will welcome the biographical notes given at the head of the selections, and the longer biographical sketches throughout the book. These can be made the basis of further biographical study at the discretion of the teacher.

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34. All this while, the mother stood on the threshold, wondering how a little girl could look so much like a flying snowdrift, or how a snowdrift could look so very like a little girl.

She called Violet and whispered to her.

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