This article offers guidance to teachers and students in selecting materials for extensive reading (ER). First, the article explains characteristics of ER and reviews some of the potential gains for students who do ER. Second, the article considers criteria for teachers to bear in mind when selecting ER materials. Third, the article then suggests…

"Language, Literacy and Early Childhood Education" is a comprehensive textbook for all students studying literacy and language subjects in early childhood education and primary degrees. Covering an age range from 0 to 8 years the book encompasses the four main early childhood contexts of: the family and community; childcare; the pre-school years,…

This textbook consists of specimen pages from "Harper's First," "Second," "Third," "Fourth," and "Fifth" readers. The books' main object and intent is to teach reading. The language lessons, notes, questions, etc., are placed at the end of each book, where they can be used by the teacher for…

This textbook is the third volume in a series of readers.

This textbook is the second volume in a series of readers. Word lists are included.

In the upper grades of the elementary school the purpose of the work in reading is not merely to furnish an opportunity for drill in oral expression; it should also have as a distinct aim the development of interest in good literature and should expose the child to samples of many types of English prose and verse. While in some systems it is…

This textbook is an illustrated fifth reader serving students who have presumably mastered the elementary mechanics of reading but perhaps not yet developed a genuine interest in reading. A glossary is included. The notes are designed to be of practical use to the teacher. [Cover title varies: "The Chadsey-Spain Readers. Fifth Reader."]

In the upper grades of the elementary school the purpose of the work in reading is not merely to furnish an opportunity for drill in oral expression; it should also have as a distinct aim the development of interest in good literature and should expose the child to samples of many types of English prose and verse. While in some systems it is…

In the upper grades of the elementary school the purpose of the work in reading is not merely to furnish an opportunity for drill in oral expression; it should also have as a distinct aim the development of interest in good literature and should expose the child to samples of many types of English prose and verse. While in some systems it is…

This textbook is first in a series of readers. Part one of each book deals with short selections in prose and poetry from American and British authors. Part two contains some of the great cycle stories that reveal stages of human development. Part three consists of selections from great American writers, together with biographies of the authors,…

This textbook is second in a series of readers. It is designed to furnish a rich and varied supply of reading matter suited to the interests and needs of children in the early part of the grammar school work. Part one of each book deals with short selections in prose and poetry. Part two contains some of the heroic tales of Greece and Rome. Part…

This textbook is an eighth-year reader. The book stresses cultivating literary judgement to pave the way for supplementary reading. Writings by authors such as Thomas De Quincey, William Wordsworth, Charlotte Bronte, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ben Jonson, Charles and Mary Lamb, William Shakespeare, Alfred Tennyson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry…

This textbook is a fifth reader. In this series, all the new words contained in each reading lesson, are placed at the head of the lesson, divided, pronounced, accented, and defined, with the part of speech designated. The scholar will thus have an opportunity to become acquainted with the spelling, pronunciation, accentuation, part of speech, and…

This textbook is designed for advanced classes in reading. It is adapted to this purpose by the following characteristics: (1) There is great variety in style and subjects; (2) the exercises are of a highly elevated character; (3) rhetorical rules and notation, exercises in articulation, definition, and the like are excluded as they have been…

This textbook is a third reader with longer words from common vocabulary that pupils should learn to recognize in print as they do in speech. Each reading lesson begins with words in columns intended to be studied for spelling, pronunciation, and meaning before the lesson is read. Sections entitled "How to Read" present the most…